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No one dies in the Tournament of the Triumvirate.
At least, that’s what the battle masters promised. 

In the arena, death is measured in beads—each one a chance to heal, to summon weapons, or to wield devastating magic.

Trained by a cunning adoptive father and the courtesans of the silk streets, Tomasin Villalobos is fluent in the immoral arithmetic of survival. She knows when to wait, when to provoke, and when to kill. Now, faced with ruthless and intelligent finalists and an idiot god named Drakath, Tomasin stands pressed to the wall—and fighting back.