Blood of the Oracle
Book One of the Profane Inheritance Trilogy
The Daughter of Purgatory has awakened.
The more they deem her profane, the more she proves her humanity.
For sixteen years, the cold stone walls of a Victorian abbey on the Isle of Wight have been Maia Kelly’s prison. Saved from the gallows but condemned to a lifetime of penance, the clairvoyant wears a drab Habit of Ash and prays for redemption that may never come. But as a crimson comet rips open the sky, a dark, seductive compulsion awakens within her, accompanied by chilling visions of a world beyond her own.
Threatened with transfer to a brutal lunatic asylum, Maia escapes the abbey, only to discover that her inheritance is far more cursed than she ever imagined: her father is the King of Purgatory—and that’s not the worst part. He believes Maia is the prophesied Oracle fated to end a thousand-year war between demons and seraphs.
The seraph prince vows to smother Maia’s demon fire beneath his lethal silver wings, but first he needs the newborn Oracle alive. Only she can fulfill the prophecy that promises salvation to the demons of Purgatory—even as it threatens to claim her freedom and her life.
Maia has been condemned, claimed, and imprisoned, yet she survives.
Maia cannot choose what she is becoming. But she can still choose who she becomes.
Book Clubs
Blood of the Oracle by Dark Kimber circles the questions of guilt, shame, identity, free will, belonging, faith, and who gets to decide what another person is.
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