


Carve the Mark became a New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, USA Today bestseller, and IndieBound bestseller. As a warring rebellion rages on, Akos and Cyra must choose between love and loyalty in order to triumph. As Akos battles for his own survival, he forms a romantic kinship with Cyra, harnessing her real strength of resilience as a means of salvation.

To conquer the world, Ryzek uses Cyra’s special power of transferring immense pain onto others with a single touch. When the head of the Noavek clan kidnaps Akos and his brother, Eijeh, Akos is consigned as the personal servant to Cyra, the sister of Ryzek, one of the most brutal dictators in the galaxy. Set across nine planets in a galaxy outside of the Milky Way, the story follows Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth, youngsters from rivaling countries that remain in a constant state of war with each other. The first book in the duology of the same name, Carve the Mark (2017) is a young-adult science fiction novel by bestselling American author Veronica Roth.
