The Assassin: A Love Story

You are cruel, she wrote.

You are stronger than cruelty, he replied.

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In the present, a woman languishes in a dungeon cell whose windows look out upon a cursed king's dead lovers.

In the past, a little girl kneels beside a dying boy assassin and sings to him.

And somewhere in between, a young woman moves into the cottage of the man who killed her family...

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Content warnings: Death of family, violence, prevented SA