The Lure of Wolves and Whispers (The Martyred Isle #1) By Amanda Connolly (Deluxe Limited Ed.)

A propulsive and atmospheric romantasy about a desperate young woman who risks everything to buy the forbidden magic that could save her sister’s life and finds herself bound to a dangerously alluring rebel leader. For readers of One Dark Window, Fourth Wing, and A Fate Inked in Blood

On the mist-shrouded isle of Eireann, buying magic comes with a horrific price

Years after the High King banned magic, whispers persist that a mage remembered only as the Martyr lies in hiding, waiting to lead the people into their powers once more.

For Maeve, the stories are just that, stories. Magic is gone. The Martyr is a fantasy, and her mages were banished long ago. But when her sister is gravely injured, she risks impalement on the dreaded Black Dock for a chance to buy the forbidden magic that could save her sister's life and trade her own loyalty to a ruthless and dangerously alluring rebel leader.

Bound to do the rebel leader’s bidding, Maeve begins to suspect he knows more about the stories of the Martyr than he lets on. But as she probes deeper into his dangerous plotting, a dark past emerges tying him to a prince who could be even more brutal than his father — and who could hold the key to whether they will live or die. With the Isle on the brink of war, trust and survival come at a terrible cost— one that will tear her world, and her heart, in two.