Kingdom of Ash

need them far more than they need you. The only card you have to play is your heritage— an ...

Manon turned on her side, propping her head with a hand, her white hair spilling from its braid ...

spot as she gave a curt nod. “Find the thing they need, and use it to your advantage. What would p ...

one of their long-lost allies on the waves. So she engineered it to happen: provoked a small Valg fleet to ...

“I do. And I think she will help you.” “Why bother?” He wondered if the Thirteen could ever see it—th ...

did have its benefits, it seems.” His words rang flat, even as an edge sharpened inside him. ...

“Doesn’t it?” Manon frowned. “Most can barely withstand a few months of Valg infestation. You barely ...

instead, witchling?” His voice turned rough, and he knew she could hear his heartbeat as it began hammering. ...

anything but what he was. Only with her would there be no judgment for what he’d done, ...

quickly asleep. Had stayed asleep, while Manon had contemplated how, exactly, she was to have ...

rushing into my tent with his various pressing matters. I could barely convince him to sit still lo ...

family has a hearth that moves with them to each camp or home we make; the fires never extinguish. ...

turned toward her. “When a Crochan Queen summons her people to war, a flame is taken from the royal ...

The witch noted the impatience and chuckled. “We were on our way to Eyllwe.” Manon started. “Eyllwe? I ...

Eyllwe is already lost—come with us to the North.” The crone merely shook her head. “That may be. But we h ...

CHAPTER 16 Darrow was waiting on horseback atop a hill when the army finally arrived at nightfall. A full ...

a battle before that, but they’d sleep well tonight. And Aedion would refuse to move them tomorrow. ...

Darrow cut him a steely look. “Tell the other lords.” He surveyed Aedion from his mud-splattered ...

being curled into ghost-leopard form by the brazier, and had awoken before dawn simply because sleeping h ...

Thank the gods for that. The war tent was nearly full, lords and princes and commanders gathered aroun ...