Red Sister

Red Sister is the first novel in the Book of the Ancestor trilogy, by Mark Lawrence. It was published in April 2017 by HarperVoyager in the UK, and by ACE in the USA.

Publisher's Synopsis
"I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin." At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.

But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse.

Stolen from the shadow of the noose, Nona is sought by powerful enemies, and for good reason. Despite the security and isolation of the convent her secret and violent past will find her out. Beneath a dying sun that shines upon a crumbling empire, Nona Grey must come to terms with her demons and learn to become a deadly assassin if she is to survive…

Main Characters

 * Nona Grey (POV)
 * Abbess Glass
 * Arabella Jotsis
 * Clera Ghomal
 * Hessa
 * Zole
 * Yisht
 * High Priest Jacob
 * Raymel Tacsis
 * Giljohn

Quotes
"It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men."