The Mark of Shadows: Book 3 : Inverted Pact

The Conclave has come to audit Paris. Its judges make the dead testify. And they want to inventory Éliane Moreau. Three months ago, Éliane discovered that her father was playing a game beyond anything she thought she knew about him. Now the armed truce they've kept under one roof is running out: the Conclave's occult tribunal is setting up in Paris, and its red seals already cover the gates of the family manor. To escape the ash depositions - interrogations where the dead themselves testify against the living - Éliane has only one option: run for the seat of her own executioner. Become a candidate for the thirteenth throne. Walk, eyes open, into the very institution she wants to destroy. But every trial she survives brings her closer to the man she loves - the man she's officially been ordered to hunt. Every piece of evidence she neutralizes uncovers another, older and more dangerous, until her own father's sleeves are finally rolled up, and thirty-three years of silence become the most explosive evidence in the trial. She will have to choose: save him by taking the seat, or condemn him by staying free. A tribunal where the dead speak. A father who may have been a victim before he was an executioner. A love the entire State is hunting with bare hands. The Inverted Pact is the third book in The Mark of Shadows, a five-book dark romantasy saga for readers of Ninth House, Fourth Wing, and A Court of Thorns and Roses.