Here’s another new release I just finished reading: The Sin-Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury.
The first book in a new series, this novel is a medieval fantasy set in the kingdom of Lormere, where seventeen year-old Twylla is the executioner. The daughter of a Sin-Eater (a villager who performs the ritual meal that will absolve the dead of their sins), Twylla was taken away at a young age to live at the palace as the embodiment of Daunen, the daughter of the gods Daeg and Naeht, and the betrothed of crown prince Merek.
As Daunen Embodied, Twylla has the special ability to kill with a single touch, which is wrought upon those charged with treason. Apart from her duties as executioner, she lives life in isolation as the entire court is careful not to come into contact with her. But when a new guard, Lief, is assigned to protect her, Twylla’s life is turned upside down, and the world she knows will never be the same again.