title: Acts of Mercy: A Mercy Street Novel
author:  Mariah Stewart 
description: A fantastic new series . . . The authors finely drawn characters, and her rapid-pace, intelligent stories, keep the suspense flowing and the pages turning.<i>Fresh Fiction<br /><br /></i>
zlib_text: GRAV E MERCY
   
  ROBIN LAF EV ERS
   
   
   
   
   
  
  Escaping from the brutality of an arranged marriage, seventeen
  year-old ismae finds sanctuary at the convent of st. mortain. here
  she learns that the god of death himself has blessed her with
  dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. if she chooses to stay at the
  convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a
  handmaiden to death. to claim her new life, she must be willing to
  take the lives of others.
  Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the
  high court of brittany where she finds herself woefully underprepared
  —for how can she deliver death’s vengeance upon a target who,
  against her will, has stolen her heart?
   
   
   
  Robin La Fevers was raised on fairy tales, bulfinch’s mythology,
  and nineteenth-century poetry. it is not surprising that she grew up to
  be a hopeless romantic. she was lucky enough to find her one true
  love, and is living happily ever after with him in california. 
   
  “Lafevers has written a dark, sophi