Le Crime du paradis - Nouveau roman 2026

Guillaume Musso

Description

The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.

Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.

Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks.

When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother she might stand a chance of staying alive.

For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption.

As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing.

And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love.

One assassin. One target. A televised death match that will force them to choose between survival and each other.

Hunter and Hunted: Melinoë is a living weapon, sent to kill Inesa in a livestreamed death match. But as the chase unfolds across a dying land, the lines between predator and prey begin to blur. Forbidden Love: An assassin and her target are an impossible match, but as they’re forced to rely on each other to survive, they start to wonder if they’re capable of more than just killing—and if they might be falling for each other. High-Stakes Survival: From the half-sunken streets of Esopus Creek to the dangers of the wasteland, Inesa must use every skill she has to stay one step ahead of a killer who has never failed a mission. Cybernetically Enhanced Assassin: With neural reconditioning and physiological alterations, Melinoë is a perfect weapon haunted by her past. This next kill is meant to be her redemption, but her target might be the one person who can make her feel human again.

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