The Queen's Bloody Hand
She was the queen's bloody hand. An artist of agony.In the fractured wake of Alexander the Great's empire, Lyris is hand-picked by his surviving sister, Queen Cleopatra, to immortalize brutality in marble... if the queen's victims live long enough to endure the time it takes Lyris to sculpt them.But when a prisoner unlike any other is brought to her, Lyris sees more than a subject. She sees a way out. Evadne, a failed assassin with a connection to the gods, is Lyris' only means of escape from Cleopatra's iron grip. To exact their plan, Lyris' art must draw blood.…