Kingdom of Ash

siege, and get the defenses ready. Or the Silver Lake will run red again beneath the cl ...

“I meant what I said in Rifthold. Terrin is not a warrior—not at heart. I saw what was building in ...

Havilliard sat on his throne.” Yrene muttered, “Offer them the damn moon, if it will convince them t ...

His father only inclined his head. “Prepare this city, this keep,” Chaol managed to say through his gritted ...

CHAPTER 19 Fifteen minutes later, Chaol could feel Yrene still trembling as they entered a small yet ...

for you.” “I’m sure he did.” Yrene snarled. “He’s worse than you portrayed.” Chaol gave her a tired, ...

where Yrene paced in front of the bed. “I’m sorry for what he said to you.” She waved him off. ...

Yrene glanced around in doubt. “Anielle is one of the richer territories in Adarlan, despite what this keep ...

another winter, let alone an army at its doorstep.” “This keep has stood for well over a t ...

“A lot of them won’t make it,” she said softly. “They’ll stand a better chance in the Fangs than ...

lady than any other he’d met, in any court. “Then let us prepare for war, husband,” Yrene sa ...

settled. It had long been kept clear of settlement, the flat expanse riddled with hot springs and pron ...

barrel down from the mountains, destroying everything in their path in a mighty wave that would flow ...

Nesryn leaped off her ruk in an easy movement, her face grave as any pocket of Hellas’s re ...

“Let’s pray they don’t,” Yrene said, surveying the ruks in the valley below. A thousand ruks. It ha ...

CHAPTER 20 “Do you know the story of the queen who walked through worlds?” Seated on the mossy carpe ...

air. “It is a sad story,” her aunt said, one corner of her red-painted mouth curling upward as she leaned back ...

had been to arrive here at spring’s end and see him beside her aunt’s throne and simply know. And in ...

Maeve settled further into her seat. “Long ago, when the world was new, when there were no hum ...

for herself, small as it might have been. For a time, she thought it would be the newness, the challenge ...