Kingdom of Ash

Make it count. Aelin had said as much back in those initial days after he’d been freed of the coll ...

Eyllwe tomorrow alone.” “Is it so bad, to care?” The gods knew he’d been struggling to do so himself. “I ...

restraint. “I care about more than I should. I even care about you.” Another wrong thing to say. Man ...

Dawn was not too far off when a warm body slid beside his. Dorian said into the darkness, “Three to a ...

Dorian stared after her, the camp already hurrying to be off. Where that edge had dulled in his chest, ...

CHAPTER 25 Cairn had let her rot in the box for a while. It was quieter here, no endless, droning roar ...

She drifted down again, into a pocket of the dark, where she told herself that story—the story—ove ...

sandaled feet. Braziers smoldered all around. A tent. She was in a tent. Murmuring sounded outside— ...

They hadn’t chained her to an altar this time. But to a metal table, set within the center o ...

The smoke curled upward, up, up— A small hole had been cut into the tent’s ceiling. And through it ... Aelin ...

Aelin said nothing. Cairn ran a hand down the metal table’s edge. “I’ve been debating what to ...

anchoring her arms above her head. His smile grew. “Let’s see how your entire body reacts to flame withou ...

The table would turn red-hot, and the scent of burning flesh would fill her nose, and she wouldn’t be a ...

Even as a word took form on her tongue. Please. She tried to swallow it. Tried to keep it lock ...

gauntlet-covered fingers pressing into the iron slab beneath her. One last chance. She’d seen the stars ...

the air from the lungs of every soldier in his path. How many would he know? How many had he trained? A ...

patrols had circled all night, and if he faced them, expending more power than he needed to while also fi ...

Rowan bared his teeth, his breathing roughening. Lorcan and Gavriel would be waiting for the signal, a ...

shields wobbling around them. Rowan shattered them with half a thought, his magic tearing the air from ...

It was an effort not to peer behind him, though Lorcan could not see her. They’d left Elide a few m ...