Mask of Shados [Paperback]

<p>"I love every aspect of this amazing book... Get! Read! Now!" <strong>—TAMORA PIERCE,</strong>#1 <em>New York Times</em>bestselling author</p><p>I Needed to Win.<br>They Needed to Die.</p><p>Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But Sal wants nothing more than to escape the life of highway robber and get closer to the upper-class—and the nobles who destroyed their home. </p><p>When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand—the Queen's personal assassins, named after the rings she wears—Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge. </p><p>But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. And as Sal succeeds in the competition, and wins the heart of Elise, an intriguing scribe at court, they start to dream of a new life and a different future, but one that Sal can have only if they survive. <br></p><p></p>