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The Names We Burn
What if your name belonged to the Crown?
Names are power. In Veyr, they are also property. Outlaw nameburner Mara Quill breaks the magical bindings that hold people to the Crown, carrying fragments of their memories away with her. An alliance with a Crown Warden draws her into a struggle over identity, freedom, and who gets to decide what a person is worth.
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- Author
- Arthur Iverson
- Genre
- Dark fantasy
- Ebook ISBN
- 9798233236129
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A FIRST LOOK
The opening.
A short excerpt from The Names We Burn.
The Names We Burn · ARTHUR IVERSON
The door knew Joren Hest by name.
That was the trouble.
Mara Quill crouched on the third-floor landing with one knee in a puddle of rainwater and watched the brass letters above the latch glow a patient blue. JOREN HEST, TENANT. The Crown seal beneath them was smaller than her thumb. It had teeth.
Behind the door, a man breathed as quietly as a man could while hiding from the law in his own kitchen.
“You said you could do it,” he whispered.
Mara did not look up from her tools. “I said I could try.”
“You charged me as if you were certain.”
“I charge everyone as if I’m certain. It improves confidence.”
End of excerpt
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