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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?