<i><b>Admon’s Bastard. Assassin apprentice. Trained spy.</b><br /><br />My mother named me Raziel—‘Hidden Truth’ in the old tongue. Did she know what hidden destiny awaits me in this goddess-forsaken empire of forbidden magic and deadly intrigue?<br /><br />The secrets of her past remain beyond my reach, shared only by Admon himself. Even then, she never trusted him with everything.<br /><br />Surely, she must have known. A spy for a mother. An assassin for a guardian...<br /><br />What else could I possibly become?</i><br /><br />Follow Raziel as he starts his journey to become a legend of the empire in this first short novel of the vividly-rendered Fatal Empire series by the author of the World of Lasniniar series, Jacquelyn Smith.