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protagonist, narrator

Esme Calder

One of seven who receive the unsigned second invitation — and the only candidate who has to win, because she has nothing to go home to.

Appearance

Seventeen, a secondhand blazer she tailored herself, ink-stained fingers, the watchful stillness of someone used to being the only one in the room who can't afford a mistake.

Appears In

The cover for the book 'First Cut' by Cordelia Ashby
The Alcove

First Cut

A Dark Academia Thriller of a Secret Society, a Deadly Boarding School Competition, and Impossible Powers Cordelia Ashby