Overview

After her father's poor health forces him to retire, Cosette Argant proudly continues his trade, forging a reputation as Marenburg's first female jeweler. But when Tearnan warships attack her coastal home and turn its narrow streets and ancient walled Quarters into a brutal battlefield, the rippling violence destroys nearly everything Cosette and her family have built. She fears losing her father, too, and enacts a desperate plan to cross the war-torn city to reach him. While smuggling herself through occupied territory, she is mistaken for a spy and captured by the Tearnan army. Now a prisoner, Cosette is caught in a struggle between enemy factions intent on using her for their own ends. Her only hope of release, and of reaching her father, is to cooperate with the invaders. But as the fighting intensifies, it becomes increasingly difficult to cooperate without betraying the home-and the people-she loves, until she's finally faced with a choice she never expected to have to make. The Gray Sheep is the first book in the Lochsmith trilogy, a story of one ordinary woman's intimate experience with war and the change she makes in the trajectory of a continent-wide conflict.

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""The Gray Sheep is a richly intriguing examination of the complexities of war, backdropped against an intricately detailed and fleshed out fantasy world... To read this book is to step into its world and yearn to interact with it beyond the pages. If you're into long books full of political and wartime intrigue, realistic characters, moral dilemmas, and a dash of magic, you do not want to miss this."" -Independent Book Review ""This dynamic world and cast of characters promise an engaging saga to follow."" -Kirkus Reviews

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S. M. Somerset loved earning her degree in History but knew she wouldn't be happy pursuing a career in academia. Instead, she embraced her life-long proclivity for using stories to understand the world around her and began weaving her historical studies into her fantasy world of the Winding Clock.

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