{"product_id":"one-fifth-dragon","title":"(08\/04\/26 PREORDER) One-Fifth Dragon","description":"\u003cp\u003eDRAGONS, ASSASSINS, AND NINJAS!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy a Baen Fantasy and Adventure Finalist and Indie Star\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCover by Dungeons and Dragons artist Todd Lockwood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey taught me the art of disappearing: how to slip through a room like a shadow at noon, how to dress a face in lies until no one recognizes the man beneath. They taught the small, hands-on cruelties: how to hide poison, how to slit a throat before the man can make a noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost dangerous of all . . . they taught me patience. They taught me to never quit until the job was completed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo let them sleep in their castles and whisper of safety. Let them keep their cleverness and secrets. I already know their sins. When darkness comes—and it will—I will be the thing beneath the floorboards, the breath on their necks, the quiet that becomes the scream. I will return what they took, multiplied by the cruelty they practiced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir hands built the blade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir choices sharpened it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir blood will be the prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53996985123091,"sku":"9781668073353","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/1652\/7891\/files\/9781668073353.jpg?v=1774992037","url":"https:\/\/www.monsterasbooks.com\/products\/one-fifth-dragon","provider":"Monstera's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}