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Beastie Press, July 2012
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Nominated for Best Romantic Science Fiction / Futuristic (2011) by The Romance Reviews
(originally titled Bleeder)
A dystopian new adult fantasy
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It's more than a hundred years after the world devolved into chaos and the gods returned to save humanity from itself. Samael purged the earth with cleansing fire, and Asherah blessed a chosen few with fertility once again.
At thirteen, Mallory of Settlement 20 is discovered to be a rare fertile female. She goes from poverty and hunger to live in Red City as a pampered and protected chalice. Her totem, sign of Asherah's divine favor, is a firebird.
Until she's eighteen, Mal trains to control her body and suppress her emotions. A chalice must detach from the world so she can serve it. Unfortunately the world isn't detached from Mal. Her firebird totem has a special significance. Because of it she's caught in a power struggle between two kings.
It becomes hard to know who is on her side, and Mal is forced to trust King Edmund, a resourceful and daring ruler willing to flaunt Red City's law for the good of his people. When Mal starts falling for Edmund, she battles to deny her feelings. Love is the one luxury denied to a chalice - the one thing that could shatter Mal's world and destroy her and Edmund both.
[This book contains sexual content.]
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