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A drop of venom

Patel, Sajni, 1981-2025

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All monsters and heroes have beginnings. This is mine. Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters, she's been running from them for years. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the Kings most prized warriors and a frequent visitor to the floating temples. When Pratyush and Manisha meet, each sees in the other the possibility to chart a new path. Unfortunately, the kingdom's powerful have other plans. A temple visitor sexually assaults Manisha and pushes her off the mountain into a pit of vipers. A month later, the King sends Pratyush off to kill one last monster (a powerful nagin who has been turning men to stone) before he'll consider granting the slayer his freedom. Except Manisha doesn't die, despite the hundreds of snake bites covering her body and the venom running through her veins. She rises from the pit more powerful than ever before, with heightened senses, armor-like skin, and blood that can turn people to stone. And Pratyush doesn't know it, but the "monster" he's been sent to kill is none other than the girl he wants to marry.