R A T I N G: 4 stars to A Touch of Death! ★★★★ Those wild, untamed lands which stretch around the great walls of the Kingdom, filled with mutants and rabids. But things with Nate are never simple, and when one wrong move turns their lives upside down, the only thing left to do is run where the King’s guards cannot find them – the Outlands. Two years pass without a word, and then one night Nate returns. And unlike Thom, Catherine has never forgiven him. His actions sullied not only his future, but theirs. The daughter of the King’s Hangman and in love with Thom, Nate’s younger brother, her life has always been easy, ordered and comfortable. But when he’s released from prison, Nate disappears.Ī stark contrast, Catherine Taenia has spent her entire life comfortable and content. It is only by the will of the King that Nate Anteros, son of the King’s favourite, is spared from the gallows after openly dissenting. Yet riches and power only go so far, and even Anaitians can be executed. The rich live in Anais, the capital city of Cutta, sheltered from the famine and disease which ravage the rest of the Kingdom. Those wild, untamed lands which stretch around the great walls of the Kingdom, filled with mutants and rabids.A thousand years in the future, the last of humanity live inside the walls of the totalitarian Kingdom of Cutta.

A thousand years in the future, the last of humanity live inside the walls of the totalitarian Kingdom of Cutta.

A Touch of Death by Rebecca Crunden