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Fractured Soul
A Fantasy Novel by J.M.D. Reid
Book 1 of the Assassins of Illumination Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Assassin Fantasy,
- Shapeshifter Fantasy,
- Crime Fantasy,
- Second Chance,
- Identity Quest
This book is for you if you're into...
- Shapechangers haunted by the souls of those they've killed
- Assassins trying to break free from their past masters
- Crime syndicates manipulating people with supernatural abilities
His soul fractured by too many lives... an assassin seeks to find himself.
In the City of Kash, the shapechanging assassin is free of his masters. No One has stumbled back to his old life. Has become who he once was. Carstin. A broken man loved by a laundress.
No longer a slave to those who made him into a monster. Able to take on the form of anyone he has slain, the souls of those he killed lurk inside him. They all want their lives back and fight to seize it.
Carstin is beset from within and without. Another assassin hunts him, and a crime syndicate plots to use his abilities for their own nefarious goals. How can he start over when he is at war with his past? Will he lose himself and his chance for a second start?
Garnet, formerly of the Cracked Gems, drowns in guilt. She has returned to Kash to make amends for her role in a terrible crime. She will stand against those who seek to profit in the chaos. She will oppose those who wish No One to kill once more.
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