by Amy Ewing
Part of The Lone City, book 1
First published 2017
Raven refuses to be just a number. She has a name and she intends to keep it. But when she gets sold to the Countess of Stone during an auction, her defiance faces its greatest test. The Countess runs a operation where she breaks people through horrific experiments. Raven senses immediately that this woman represents pure evil. The Countess begins her work on Raven, using brutal methods designed to destroy her spirit and bend her to submission. Each experiment pushes Raven closer to her breaking point. She must find the strength to resist the Countess's torture while trapped in a place designed to crush hope. The question becomes whether Raven can survive with her identity and will intact, or whether the Countess will succeed in reducing her to nothing more than a broken number in her collection.
Genres: dystopia, abuse, horror, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, identity-crisis
Setting: Stone
91 pages · Paperback · Uitgeverij Leopold B.V.
Content warnings: abuse, torture, violence