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Karpov Kinrade's new series brings together the excitement and intelligence of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and The Mortal Instruments. You think you know what is right and what is wrong? Then tell me if this man should die. He is my enemy. He is to be my end. He is the one I love. I have spent my life in shades of grey. I have died and returned to a world of color. I have fought an Angel and lived. I have kissed the Prince of Ravens. I have faced the Lord of Night and made him kneel. I was accepted into the Four Orders, and I created the fifth. I freed the Shadow of Rome. I sat upon the Twilight Throne. The man asks for my surrender. He asks for peace. He is too late. The girl he knew is gone, and death is in her place. I am Nightfall, and this is my story. You think you know it? Think again. ### From the Author EXCERPT The soldiers reached me. They aimed their guns and fired before I could even turn around. I thought I couldn't feel more pain. That I'd maxed out the human capacity to endure. I was wrong. The bullet of fire entered my body and moved through me, leaving a trail of burning agony in its wake. I slumped over the crystal box, my blood seeping out of me, staining the opaque quartz. Red. Scarlet. Evie whispered the color of my own name into my ear as I slowly died. My last vision was of scarlet blood--still just grey to me--spreading into the cracks, into the intricate carvings that decorated the encasement. It almost seemed to glow, and I smiled and closed my eyes as the crystal shattered and darkness took me.