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336 pages, ebook
First published August 23, 2022
Hart is a marshal patrolling the wild lands of Tanria. Mercy is handling her family’s undertaking business almost alone after her father suffers a health scare.
Hart hates Mercy. Mercy hates Hart. But their paths keep intersecting as his work makes him visit the undertakers often. Both don’t realise how lonely they are in their situations.
One day, feeling quite low, Hart finds himself penning a heartfelt missive to “A Friend”, not expecting that the magical postal system will ensure that he gets an anonymous letter back. Guess whom it is from? (No marks if you got that right!)
Thus begins the open-hate-secret-love relationship between the duo, at the same time as Tanria is battling a dangerous threat. Will their romance survive as survival itself seems at stake?
The story comes to us in the alternating third-person perspectives of Hart and Mercy.
#1 The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy ★★★★★
#2 The Undermining of Twyla and Frank
It annoyed Mercy to no end that after years of putting up with that insufferable marshal, some primal inner instinct continued to think he looked good enough to eat.