Weston disappears, and Tessa decides that to make things right she must infiltrate the palace, and will inevitably meet the royals… Everything changes when eight smugglers from Steel City are caught but their execution is interrupted by revolutionaries calling against the king’s regime and support of the mysterious ‘Benefactors’. Fortunately, she didn’t suffer the same fate thanks to the mysterious masked Weston, and the two team up to not only steal petals but also to make the formula that cures people and give it to the poor. One of these smugglers is Tessa: an apothecary girl whose parents were killed by the Night Patrol (the King’s army and guard) after they started smuggling. The duo feel forced to rule with an iron fist: supplies are heavily controlled, prices are so high that only the rich can afford them, and smugglers try to take these petals, and are often executed for their actions. The only cure found is the petals of Moonflower which are only grown in two of the Kingdom’s districts. This was quickly followed by a mysterious illness that affected random people, bringing coughing, fever and death. In the kingdom of Kandala, the king and queen were assassinated leaving their eldest and sickly son Harritsan to ascend the throne with his younger brother Corrick as the King’s Justice. Defy the Night is the start of a new series from Brigid Kemmerer (who wrote A Curse so Dark and Lonely trilogy that I have never read).
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