Character from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
The Wraith — a Suli acrobat sold into a brothel, freed by Kaz Brekker, and reborn as the deadliest spy in Ketterdam, who carries her saints' names on her knives and hunts slavers across the sea.
Inej was fourteen when slavers took her from her family's Suli caravan and sold her to the Menagerie — a brothel on West Stave. Kaz bought her contract and gave her a choice: work for the Dregs as a spy, or go free. She chose the Dregs because freedom without purpose felt like another kind of cage. She climbs anything. She hears everything. She moves through Ketterdam's rooftops like she was born there. Her faith in her Suli saints is unshakable — she prays before kills, names her knives Sankt Petyr and Sankta Alina, and refuses to become the monster her trauma could have made her. Her relationship with Kaz is the series' emotional core: she loves a man who built walls of cruelty to survive, and she refuses to accept less than what she's worth. 'I will have you without armor, or I will not have you at all.' After the events of Crooked Kingdom, Kaz buys her a ship — The Wraith — and she sails to hunt slavers. She chose her own war.
Small, brown-skinned Suli girl with dark hair and dark eyes. Moves with the silent grace of someone who grew up performing acrobatics on a high wire. Wears soft leather and carries multiple knives — each named after a saint. Her footsteps make no sound. She earned the name 'the Wraith' because people she's tracking don't know she's there until it's too late.
Also known as: The Wraith, Inej