The Praying Mantis: A lethal beauty

Before the SharpShooter's crosshairs ever framed her destiny, blood was already staining the velvet of Lyon.There are secrets that history cannot erase, truths buried beneath layers of nobility and ambition. In this official spin-off of The SharpShooter saga, the veil is torn away to reveal the dark origins of Lauren Blanchard, the woman the world would come to fear as the Praying Mantis.This is not a simple chronicle of the past, but the descent of a predator into the coils of the most forbidden magic. A disruptive beauty concealing a soul schooled in indifference and a scarlet pact signed in the abyss, where pleasure becomes nourishment and eternity is paid for with sacrifice.From the dreamlike visions of a warrior yet to be born to the misty paths leading to the abode of the Gothic Witch, Lauren weaves her lethal web.Discover how one of the most powerful witches in history is born and why, in the world of the occult, beauty is never a gift but a lethal compromise.