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The first novel by Mindy Mackay.
 
In post-renaissance Europe, a brutal genocide was carried out against mutants, resulting in the decimation of the species. [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] a revolutionary faction called the Paralysis has emerge to enact the mutants' revenge. The leader of the revolt, Isabella Sordeno, {{spoiler|returns from the dead}} and leads the stumbling organization on the path to a bloody coup d'etat of [[Canada, Eh?|Canada]].
 
Among Isabella's followers is disillusioned hit-werewolf Kiera Graves, who at first wants nothing more but to [[Bottle Fairy|drink booze]] and [[For the Evulz|murder humans]] for the rest of her days. That's until she falls in love with her comrade, Jackson Solomon, an intellectual "prison-addled" psychopath who is determined to save her from her destructive little self. As she becomes closer and closer to the man who has known [[Cold -Blooded Torture|misery in its deepest and purest forms]], she must reevaluate the way she lives her own life, all the while dealing with a [[Stalker With a Crush]] and the species barrier, as relations between mutants and aristocrats are not often tolerated in mutant high society. Just as victory seems imminent, Kiera learns from a local prophetess that Jackson is fated to die at her hands.
 
Readers with weaker stomachs [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|are advised to stand clear.]]
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* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: The Paralysis is a combination of the evils of cult-mania and corporatism, headed up by a sadistic megalomaniac and populated by murderous psychopaths, but since the Scandinavian Confederation as an even more sadistic fiend at its forefront and conducts ruthless experiments on people, it's all OK.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]
** Actually, the hair colors are [[Colour -Coded for Your Convenience]]. Upon close inspection of the text, this troper concludes that blondes are actually anarchic and ruled by chaos (Kiera and Vance); redheads are creatures of passion and emotion who don't often think things through (Chamika and Mercedes, and this troper assumes the rest of the Carsons, whose company is on a downhill slope); and black-haired characters are cold, calculating, condescending, and powerful (Isabella, Jackson, Veronika, and Chamika after the dye job--she's obviously trying to become more cold and calculating and seems to have figured out the color-code algorithm. Hey, couldn't hurt, [[Catch Phrase|chickadee.]]
* [[Broken Bird]]: Chamika.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hey chickadee!"
* [[Cold -Blooded Torture]]: Fleischer and everything that goes on inside it.
** Like remember the time when Veronika {{spoiler|gave Jackson cancer?}}
*** And then {{spoiler|dug it out with a fucking SWITCHBLADE?}}
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* [[Smart People Play Chess]]
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: Kiera, when she {{spoiler|accidentally unleashes a horde of zombies to not only bring Isabella's empire to its knees, but kill her own lover and pretty much break the world.}}
* [[Squick]]: See [[Cold -Blooded Torture]].
** {{spoiler|"She removed my kidney..."}}
* [[Surrounded By Idiots]]: How Dustin feels about the organization in the short time he's in charge.
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Kiera and Chamika are this, at times.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: This troper thinks Isabella is the new poster girl for this trope.
* [[Wrong Name Outburst]]: Kiera's boyfriend Kenneth from the first few chapters, after she gets his name wrong twice. (First she tried Evan, and when that wasn't it, she guessed Danny.) Their relationship came to an end within seconds of this.
* [[Your Days Are Numbered]]
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