Deceit and Despair - AR - Bog

How far would you go to keep your loved ones safe in a world that despises them? How many times would you run, screaming, into your own guilt to keep them from having to do so? But how many times could you, before you lost yourself to the monster you were pretending to be? If you are still capable of telling good from evil, please, please go far, far away, and never come back.The more desperately I try to swim back up to sanity, the more I can feel myself sinking, a never-ending, hopeless battle for something I don't even think I want. What's the point? It would all be so much easier, if I was truly mad.Just promise me, when I lose this fight and drown, you'll stay away. Maeve Hays, a half-blood woman who had somehow managed to live a happy life for just a moment, is forced to put an end to the blissful peace she shared with her husband, to turn him against the world that persecutes her people.In the city of New Sacares, the half-blood population live in fear of humanity's persecution, and only one woman defiling her soul with evil deeds could give them a chance at the happiness she had once known.
But, what if playing a monster could turn her into the real thing?
A heart-rending noir-crime thriller about knowingly and willingly committing evil in the name of the greater good, and suffering dearly for it.