The Mercy Makers is deliciously sensual and dreamlike, generously steeped in queerness with a fascinating magic system and brilliant antihero.  The ruling faction of Moonshadow city demands balance through assimilation.  Iriset—daughter of the opposition’s leader—moonlights as Silk, a legendary architect of forces, specializing in human architecture, which manipulates the body and is treasonous.  When her father is captured and sentenced to death, Iriset must keep her architecture work secret as she infiltrates the palace, trying to save her father and make change for good.  Her plan would have worked much better had she not fallen in love.