{"product_id":"malanthia-the-dark-violet-9789948627005","title":"Malanthia: The Dark Violet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe was fifteen when they took her from the kitchen.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalanthia Duvenne grows up in a village of violets, warm bread, and small mercies. Then a carriage arrives with a serpent on the door, and the girl who pressed flowers into books is taken north to Stonemouth Keep-where the Greythorn regime trains children to become instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive years later, she has a new name.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeraphine, Commander of the Queen's Guard, is everything the Keep intended: precise, disciplined, and deadly. She has been taught to read a room, control a body, bury a past, and turn love into weakness before it can begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThen they send her to kill the man she loves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsh is everything her training did not prepare her for-direct, open, and good in a way that slips past every wall the regime built inside her. He does not know what she is. He does not know what she has been ordered to do. And when he places a silver ring in her hand, the weapon the regime forged begins to crack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has seven days. The prophecy says he must die. The blade is waiting. The red dress is being fitted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel about the architecture of conditioning, the cost of obedience, and the thing that breaks when a weapon learns to love its target.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMALANTHIA: THE DARK VIOLET\u003c\/strong\u003e is a standalone gothic fantasy set in the world of \u003cem\u003eThe Binding of Velundra\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steep House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789948627005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.39d","brand":"A. K. Hayat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604544516277,"sku":"9789948627005","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9e8707e4-359e-4c26-bf23-a9d995cebe82.jpg?v=1780456422","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/malanthia-the-dark-violet-9789948627005","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}