# This Monster of Mine

**Author:** Shalini Abeysekara  
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She knows the taste of death. He’ll stoke her hunger for it. Eighteen-year-old Sarai doesn’t know why someone tried to kill her four years ago, but she does know that her case was closed without justice.

**Hellbent on vengeance, she returns to the scene of the crime as a Petitor**, a prosecutor who can magically detect lies, and is assigned to work with Tetrarch Kadra. Ice-cold and perennially sadistic, Kadra is the most vicious of the four judges who rule the land—and the prime suspect in a string of deaths identical to Sarai’s attempted murder.

**Certain of his guilt, Sarai begins a double life:** solving cases with Kadra by day and plotting his ruin by night. But Kadra is charming and there’s something alluring about the wrath he wields against the city’s corruption.

**So when the evidence she finds embroils her in a deadly political battle,** Sarai must also fight against her attraction to Kadra—because despite his growing hold on her heart, his voice matches the only memory she has of her assailant…

A dazzling Ancient Rome-inspired romantasy debut, _This Monster of Mine_ is a bloodbath of manipulation, deception, and forbidden love.