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From the age of seven, Jack Harper is raised by the leader of a mystical cult, Cyrus Harper. Through Cyrus, Jack receives a full education in all usual subjects—economics, literature, mathematics, history—as well as one unique skill useful to a person in Cyrus's position: assassination. With the help of Roland James, a man incapable of dying, Cyrus hones Jack into the perfect weapon to use against all who oppose him.
It is not long, however, before Jack discovers that Cyrus and Roland are not the only ones living in Cyrus's mansion. There, too, exists a mysterious creature in the depths of the house with supposed immortal magic. According to Roland, this creature is responsible for all the miraculous things Jack has witnessed throughout her childhood, including Roland's resurrection. The creature, potent and powerful, only weakens in the presence of Cyrus's red velvet box—a dark, enchanted tool that grants Cyrus his invincibility and ensures his reign.
Lonely and terrified by her life in the cult, under Cyrus's neverending watch, Jack desperately pursues the mysterious being. When they finally meet, her world is turned upside down, as he offers her more than she could have ever expected—the possibility of escape and her own secret, magical power.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 12, 2019
      Impressive and arresting prose drives this vivid debut, which launches the Jack Harper series. Jack is seven years old when church leader Cyrus first manipulates her into killing a man with the promise of bringing him back to life. When Cyrus keeps his word, he sets in motion Jack’s 10-year grooming as a murderer and a linchpin of the cult’s success. However, Cyrus’s ability relies on an imprisoned creature with the ability to resurrect the dead, and a mysterious box that tells Cyrus the names of those who have decided to betray him. Despite Cyrus’s unrelenting insistence that “devolution, chaos, and the downfall of innocence” are to be sought in the name of power, Jack’s innate morality overwhelms her conditioning when Cyrus shows her a group of innocent children intended to be sacrificed. Prompted by what she’s seen, Jack must figure out how to defect before the box provides her name to Cyrus. Barlow’s gorgeous writing will easily propel readers through the rest of the series.

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