Kingdom of Ash

sworn none of the strange or fell beasts in these lands would prowl so close to Doranelle, but s ...

body, her hands. Didn’t know what to say as Aelin stumbled over root and rock, the mask and the cha ...

for them.” Aelin, as if her body didn’t quite belong to her, lifted her shackled, metal-encased hands. The cha ...

The gauntlets had been locked at her wrist, overlapping slightly with the shackle. Both had small keyhol ...

“I’m—” Aelin snatched the dagger from him, metal clicking on metal as she fitted the blade’s tip into th ...

Then she dropped the dagger into the moss. Began clawing at the shackles on her arms, the gauntlets on her hand ...

heaved against the mask. “Take it off!” The plea turned into a scream. “Take it off!” Over and over, ...

his bloodied maw. Rowan had barely entered the clearing before he set down the wolf and stalked for Aelin. T ...

Blood ran down her neck from the scratches she’d dug into her skin, mingling with what ...

No, not eased, Elide realized as Rowan rose to his feet and stalked behind the queen. But contained, turned in ...

one. Behind Aelin, Rowan’s blood-splattered face was grim while he studied the lock fastening the ...

Elide held her breath as both males strained, arms shaking. Nothing. They tried again. Aelin’s breathi ...

But to take Aelin in the chains, when she was so frantic to be free of them ... Aelin’s eyes opened. They ...

revealed. Aelin again blinked twice with that strange intentionality. Rowan snarled at the chains, heaving again. ...

murmured. “But she needed ...” He let his words hang unfinished as he picked up the broken knife ...

his cupped palm. Her fingers curled, the gauntlet clicking. As if it were another answer, too. “She ...

closed around his. In halting, small movements, she guided his finger to trace the symbol onto the shackle ...

and flames carved and embossed along its ancient surface. A flare of light, a click of metal, and then ...

blazing, erupted around the queen. The shift burned away into ashes. Lorcan dragged Elide back, and sh ...

As if someone had wiped them away. ...