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Grave Mercy
written by Robin LaFevers
Ages: 14+
Published: 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/HMH
ISBN: 978-0-547-62834-9
Keywords: Assassins, French history
Can seventeen-year-old Ismae, handmaiden to the God of Death, navigate the intrigue of high court while protecting the man she loves and the fate of fifteenth-century Brittany?