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The Curtain Over Nov Salus
Paperback
Series: The City of Nov Salus, Book 1
Publisher Price: $25.99
Publisher: C. Yen Marsden
Published: Mar 6 2026
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She traded her arm for a future. Now she has to decide what that future is worth.
In the dark fantasy city of Nov Salus, survival is a transaction. The crown takes your body: a limb, a sense, a piece of yourself, and in exchange, you become something powerful enough to fight the beasts and Terrors beyond the walls. For Kitalain Nostradame, an immigrant outcast with everything to prove, the trade felt worth it.
Three years later, her arm is gone, her deployment looms, and the war she sacrificed for feels like a lie.
When the Half-King orders all recruits into the path of the Great Beast, Kitalain is forced to confront what she has truly lost - not just her limb, but her childhood wonder. Performances. Art. The quiet rebellion that once made her feel alive. Her parents demand reclamation of their status. Her city demands duty. But somewhere beneath the fear and fire, a different kind of power stirs.
In a city consuming itself, Kitalain must choose how to fight: with the monstrous strength in her mutated body, or the creative spark the war was never able to take.
The curtain is falling over Nov Salus. Perhaps she can save its final act.
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