Death Marked (Death Sworn)

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)][Read by Cris Dukehart] A young sorceress' entire life has been shaped to destroy the empire controlling her world. She could change history. But everything she thinks she knows is a lie. At seventeen, Ileni lost her magical power and was exiled to the hidden caves of the assassins. She never thought she would survive long. But she discovered she was always meant to end up, powerless, in the caves as part of an elder sorcerer's plan to destroy the evil Empire they'd battled so long. Except that Ileni is not an assassin, and she doesn't want to be a weapon. And, after everything, she's not even sure she knows the truth. Now, at the very heart of the Empire - its academy for sorcerers - the truth is what she seeks. What she finds challenges every belief she holds dear - and it threatens her fledgling romance with the young master of assassins. Leah Cypess spins an intricate and beautiful conclusion to Ileni's story that started in ''Death Sworn''. In the end, it may not be the epic decisions that bring down an empire, but the small ones that pierce the heart.