Kingdom of Ash

all?” She did her best to look down her nose at him, even as the messenger-thief towered over her. Aelin ...

the glass castle.” He snorted. “I had no idea until today. Gods, I was there for Minister Joval ...

Nox smiled knowingly. “Fair enough.” Lysandra paused before the queen’s too- small tent, nestled betw ...

warning at the castle, plus saving my life before that.” She didn’t know why she trusted him. But she’d ...

personally served—as a groveling apology for letting in the Valg soldier—to Lords Darrow, Sloane, Gunnar, and ...

tents. The camp was gone. The army with it. ...

CHAPTER 18 No one in Anielle or the gray-stoned keep looming over its southern edge shouted with ...

like a mighty mirror spread beneath the gray sky. Yrene knew Anielle’s layout was as familiar to Chaol ...

flowed into the city to its left. It had been built as a fortress, the countless levels, b ...

cold, dark place? Chaol stayed close to Yrene, his chin high, as he announced to the dozen guards aiming ...

homecoming meant. She’d never forget the memory she’d witnessed of the father who had thrown him down the ...

entered the gloomy keep interior. The tall, narrow passageway wasn’t much better than the exterior. Slender windo ...

towering oak doors, the wood as old and rotting as the keep itself, and knocked once. “Enter.” Yrene ...

few decades. Or would be, if Chaol became as soulless and cold as the man before them. She didn’t know how ...

him. How many times had he seen him on this chair, at the head of this mighty table, which had once s ...

mused, surveying Yrene with an intensity that made Chaol want to start shattering things. “Towers is no ...

“Her worth is greater than any crown.” And in this war, it might very well be. “You don’t need ...

bother again, Chaol went on, “We came to warn you.” His father lifted a brow. “Morath is on the mo ...

but their Darghan soldiers won’t arrive for at least a week or longer.” He came forward— just one step ...

“Don’t you talk to him like that,” Yrene said with dangerous calm. His father ignored her. But Yrene stepped ...