Passed over the dried skins left from Amarone, this Veronese red picks up extra layers of cherry, spice, and depth. It mirrors Ren slipping into the borrowed skin of Alta Renata, one identity laid carefully over another.
Dense, dark, and gripping with tannin, Tannat keeps its fruit hidden behind a stern exterior. It suits the Rook, the hooded vigilante who stalks Nadežra's nobility and whose true face no one in the city knows.
In the river city of Nadežra, con artist Ren poses as the noblewoman Alta Renata to swindle her way into the faltering House Traementis, just as a nightmare-born magic begins spreading through the streets. Lush, intricate, and full of masks within masks, it rewards readers who love slow-burning schemes and divided loyalties.
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