You can also try the audiobook version through Libro.fm. Get it from Bookshop or your local bookstore via I ndiebound. Whatever is connected to that symbol may be dark and powerful, but Deka grows mightier every day, and her strongest weapon might just be herself. Referred to as a monster, Deka sets out to free the rest of the goddesses, coming into contact along the way with a strange symbol that repels her powers and keeps her from communicating with the new deathshrieks. What it's about: Six months ago, Deka freed the goddesses, but that was just the start of the battle. And as she journeys to the capital for training, she will discover that nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be. But that's before a mysterious woman offers her a choice: Stay in the village to face the backlash or join an army of girls like her - they're called alaki, near-imortals with rare gifts - who fight for the emperor. Sayantani DasGupta is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed, Bengali folktale and string theory-inspired Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond books, the first of which - The Serpents Secret - was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Best Middle Grade Novel of the 21st Century, and an E. And Deka knows she will face the consequences. In case you haven't read book one, The Gilded Ones: On the day of Deka's blood ceremony, the ceremony that determines whether she will become a member of her village, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity.
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