448 pages |Hardcover

Serpent & DovemeetsThe Bodyguardin this romantic, thrilling debut fantasy where one girl’s magic can save – or it can kill.

Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessas gift from the gods is supposed to magnify a partners magic, not kill every suitor she touches.

Now, with only weeks left until a hungry swarm of demons devours everything on her island home, Alessa is running out of time to find a partner and stop the invasion. When a powerful priest convinces the faithful that killing Alessa is the islands only hope, her own soldiers try to assassinate her.

Desperate to survive, Alessa hires Dante, a cynical outcast marked as a killer, to become her personal bodyguard. But as rebellion explodes outside the gates, Dantes dark secrets may be the biggest betrayal. He holds the key to her survival and her heart, but is he the one person who can help her master her gift or destroy her once and for all?

Emily Thiede’s exciting fantasy debut,This Vicious Grace, will keep readers turning the pages until the devastating conclusion and leave them primed for more!