Darkdawn

Darkdawn
Jay Kristoff

Discover the bloody end of Mia Corvere’s story as internationally bestselling author Jay Kristoff brings The Nevernight Chronicle to its epic conclusion.The greatest games in Godsgrave’s history have ended with the most audacious murders in the history of the Itreyan Republic.Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave, and infamous assassin, is on the run. Pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion, she may never escape the City of Bridges and Bones alive. Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies. Her own family wishes her dead. And her nemesis, Consul Julius Scaeva, stands but a breath from total dominance over the Republic.But beneath the city, a dark secret awaits. Together with her lover Ashlinn, brother Jonnen, and a mysterious benefactor returned from beyond the veil of death, she must undertake a perilous journey across the Republic, seeking the final answer to the riddle of her life. Truedark approaches. Night is falling on the Republic for perhaps the final time.Can Mia survive in a world where even daylight must die?New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jay Kristoff’s writing has been praised by critics and readers alike and has won many awards, including four Aurealis Awards, an ABIA, and David Gemmell Morningstar and Legend awards.

DARKDAWN

THE NEVERNIGHT CHRONICLE

BOOK III

Jay Kristoff

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Source ISBN: 9780008180089

Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780008180102

Version: 2019-08-02

Dedication (#ulink_7cdb02ae-a537-5739-a62d-2956b1139ba3)

for my readers

I couldn’t have done it without you, either

Contents

Cover (#u38fef0a5-e1bb-58d2-b3db-fc8dd57d9846)

Title Page (#u2a4fe314-3858-542e-94df-ba224598237a)

Copyright (#u2589e6b8-8adb-5f63-aacd-b26301d7f836)

Dedication (#u4b19d83f-edf2-5051-a507-0cb7f5c4294c)

Maps (#u693ae38f-5f4e-5089-845d-c7ec6d451ea6)

Well, here we are again … (#ue390dac0-8a0d-5b00-aab5-635befa95aa2)

Dramatis Personae (#u7f46aaa3-891c-590c-a61a-18f0c429a9d1)

Epigraph (#u25f1e2c1-a9bc-5b53-9b3a-a7f99fc64eb5)

Book 1: The Dark Within (#u48611780-6b01-5c82-ac6e-9834a0db8fac)

Chapter 1. Brother (#u7d1b5133-f044-5c8a-ba72-61589b973562)

Chapter 2. Boneyards (#uc906b35f-2b53-58b3-9122-138fd20657c4)

Chapter 3. Ember (#u47da36b2-4b3b-54a6-88e2-ae033987452b)

Chapter 4. Gift (#u2e3facd1-29c3-5079-8ef7-7c15b7f5e629)

Chapter 5. Epiphanies (#u09a26af8-8d7d-5d89-8799-cbc9e08f5121)

Chapter 6. Imperator (#u825b8579-626b-5963-a7a7-06b3410673e7)

Chapter 7. Be (#u71267699-1b2b-5f72-a4e8-2e18faca7834)

Chapter 8. Scoundrel (#ubbe2bc34-573f-51c3-94fd-3c24492696d7)

Chapter 9. Slumber (#u1f728f81-8ce8-5b99-84fd-504f6f1eb65b)

Book 2: Dying Light (#u1ee4b429-9327-5aeb-8f8b-93302492a823)

Chapter 10. Infidelity (#u04846eb9-cea3-5fb1-a3a2-d7da7eb29886)