Kingdom of Ash

veiled the bottom that sloped away as she dove under the frigid surface. The water was silent. Cool, an ...

she had escaped, and her mate had come for her. Had found her, just as they had found each o ...

plunged into water. Aelin. That’s who she was. That lake water had never seen sunlight, had flowed from ...

But that glow faded with each passing breath she emerged to take, dimming further each time she plunged ...

would warm me so well if I got in.” He wanted to, though. Gods, he wanted to leap in. But he made hims ...

around the cave, as if she could see the world beyond it. “She spun fantasies that felt so real ...” ...

single one of those hours apart. She ran her fingers through her hair, its strands floating arou ...

What had been done to her, what she’d survived and what she had protected. Even with ...

who she had been before this, he would not love her any less. Aelin dunked her head, and when she e ...

words. Made himself voice them. “No—it was real. Or Maeve thought it was. But the collars, the Valg presen ...

His breathing turned ragged. But she swam toward the surface again, light streaming off her body like tendrils ...

When he finished, Aelin was quiet for long minutes. She stared out into the blackness, the rippling o ...

agonizing emotions began to surface in her eyes. “You were supposed to save Terrasen.” “Considering ...

do with it?” “No,” he admitted. “I don’t.” And if Maeve meant to bring that army to Terrasen, to eit ...

drifting—it was being tugged. He could just barely make out two dark forms slithering beneath the surface ...

foot behind them, Elide lingered with Fenrys, the male still in wolf form. “They can’t mean for us ...

cave system that flowed to the ocean itself. To do so, they’d have to go northward through this range, ...

Perranth fillet the centuries-hardened warrior with a few words. “Considering the potential pitfalls of the si ...

Aelin privacy to dress by the fire while they inspected the boat, and when his mate emerged agai ...

the burden of chains. “Why?” Lorcan mused aloud, more to himself. “Why go to these lengths for us?” He go ...