The premise of this book is pretty complex, so stick with me: “By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society,” the book’s description begins.
Inesa and her brother scrape by running a taxidermy shop, while their mother adds to her secret (massive) debt, until she accrues enough to qualify one of her own children to Caerus’s Lamb’s Gauntlet — think Hunger Games. Melinoë is a Caerus assassin who is trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs, having been mentally and physically altered to become a living weapon with no feeling… except she does have painful flashbacks.
Now Inesa is heading into the Gauntlet, and Melinoë needs redemption in this year’s games. But as she follows Inesa across the wastelands, she wonders if there might be more to life than killing.
Is it on Kindle Unlimited? No.
