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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From 1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a masterful reimagining Publishers Weekly of Lady Macbeth Shakespeares most famous villainess giving her a voice a past and a power that transforms the story men have written for her

Lady Macbeth doesnt retell Shakespeare so much as slice cleanly through it revealing what was hidden beneath I couldnt look awayAlix E Harrow New York Times bestselling author of Starling House

The Lady knows the stories how her eyes induce madness in men

The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed

The Lady knows his hostile suspicious court will be a game of strategy requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive

But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous and that it will threaten the order of the world

She does not know this yet But she will