The butcher
Young, Laura Kat2022
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When Lady Mae turns 18, she'll inherit her mother's job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five's guilty residents as payment for their petty crimes. An index finger taken for spreading salacious gossip, a foot for blasphemy, no one is exempt from punishment. But one day Winona refuses to butcher a six-year-old boy. So their leaders, known as the Deputies, come to Lady Mae's house, and, right there in the living room, murder her mother for refusing her duties. Within twenty-four hours, now alone in the world, Lady Mae begins her new job. But a chance meeting years later puts her face to face with the Deputy that murdered her mother. Now Lady Mae must choose: will she flee, and start another life in the desolate mountains, forever running? Or will she seek vengeance for her mother's death even if it kills her?
Main title:
The butcher / Laura Kat Young.
Author:
Young, Laura Kat, author
Imprint:
London : Titan Books, 2022.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781789099034 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
5337268