The Last Soldier of Nava

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In this Korean mythology inspired sapphic fantasy, a young woman with shadow magic is awakened after a thousand years to heal her nation and her own troubled memory, even as she falls for the sister of a saint she killed in her past life.

According to legend, the Soldier drowned entire kingdoms in darkness.

Yet, the Soldier was only a girl, robbed of her will and raised as a weapon for her power-hungry father. When she awakens years later, freedom takes the form of a hidden life and a new name: Shadow.

As war brews and magical dead zones devour the natural world, Shadow is captured and pulled back into court life by her immortal fathers new prodigy, Scarlet, a diabolical woman obsessed with her sisters murder. A murder Shadow herself committed in a past life.

Shadows control over darkness holds the key to restoring the balance of their world, but a serpentine court hides greed, corruption, and her fathers new plot to resurrect his fading magic.

If shes to survive and save her nation, Shadow will have to hide her past and rely on the woman who captured hereven as they unwind the legends that brought them together and face their growing attraction.

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'The Last Soldier of Nava brims with all the things I love best: treacherous secrets, hidden identities, cutthroat court intrigue, and captivatingly complex characters whom you cant help but to miss long after youve closed the book. Yejin Suh weaves together Korean mythology and sweeping fantasy with vibrant creativity, and pens the riveting island nation of Ik-Songalong with its inhabitantswith beautiful mastery' Sophie Kim, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The God and the Gumiho

Author Bio

Yejin Suh (she/her) is a Korean American writer from New Jersey who studies English literature at Princeton University.