The Assassin: A Love Story

By Sonya Lano

If I stand on tiptoe and press my face between the bars of my cell, I can peer out over the dead lovers of the king.
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In a kingdom ruled by an undying king, a young girl who wears dead girls' clothes and sleeps in houses not hers finds a boy assassin dying in a ditch.
Hazy with sunbeams, she kneels beside him and sings to him.
He does not die.
So what does one do with deadly little boys?
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I should have left you in that ditch.
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Enter this tale to discover what an assassin did to the girl who saved him.
** This print verison includes short story Roses & Bruises & Love **
Content warnings: Death of family, violence, prevented SA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWC14HT1
• ISBN13: 9798269897042
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"