Amara The Girl Who Reads Blood

AMARA: THE GIRL WHO READS BLOOD

She does not hunt monsters.
She listens to what they leave behind.

In the flooded harbour districts, children vanish faster than police reports can be filed. Violence moves through the estates like inheritance, passed from frightened adults into frightened children while the city survives by learning to look away.

Amara already knows how fear shapes people.

Marked by a mysterious vevé after a brutal childhood encounter with the mythic vigilante known only as Shadow, she begins developing terrifying abilities that allow her to feel the pain trapped inside walls, streets and blood itself. The city speaks through suffering now, and the deeper Amara listens, the more she realises something ancient is feeding beneath the harbour.

When missing children lead her towards a hidden horror known as the House of Skin, Amara finds herself hunted by the Bone Scriptor, a man who believes pain is the only honest language humanity has ever spoken.

But vengeance is easy. Mercy is harder.

And somewhere between ghosts, grief and violence, Amara must decide what kind of myth she is becoming before the city turns her into another wound it never heals.

Some marks protect. Others change you forever.