Kingdom of Ash

cold—he was prowling one of the lower turrets as dawn broke. Up here, the wind was so much wilde ...

in the Great Hall. Rhoe had tried to defuse it, but Rhoe had never been a comfortable liar. Had refused ...

would have been here. A fool’s path, to wander down that road. Aedion was who he was, and most of ...

get the archers sorted today. And ensure the soldiers at the gates know how to wield that boiling oil.” “Do you k ...

them, too. Aedion opened his mouth to agree when his brows narrowed. He surveyed the plain, the horizon. “Out ...

as Ilias signaled back and they spread out. Amongst them moved Rolfe’s Mycenians, bearing their he ...

From the castle’s highest towers and walkways, every marching line could be counted. One after ...

Lysandra didn’t bother to look pleasant, before he turned back to his companions. “That’s thirty,” Ansel s ...

waiting and dreading. She’d gladly take days of pacing instead of what approached them. “Fifty thousand,” Anse ...

red-gold hair. “No harm shall come to you.” “I am not afraid for myself,” Evangeline said. “But for my ...

They did not bother to look beneath their feet. Neither did the witches leading their three towers. The flaming arrows ...

Two of those witch towers had been directly over the pits. Pits that they had filled with the che ...

But Aedion was still staring at the plain— at the figures on horseback galloping to Orynth’s walls. Makin ...

CHAPTER 76 “It’s possible—to show a different world?” Dorian asked Maeve when they were again in ...

Doranelle? There are mirrors to spy, to travel, to kill. Even now, Erawan wields them to his advantage ...

between places. The wards around his kingdom prevent me from doing so.” “So you could not transport ...

“You care about them—the spiders.” “You will find, Your Majesty, that a loyal friend is a rare ...

finger. And didn’t answer. Fine. Dorian went on, “So you shall break past Erawan’s wards on his room, o ...

That was when Maeve had told Erawan to meet. That liminal space between light and dark, when ...

room and dungeon he’d passed through. Darkness fell beyond the room. Dorian stepped back as the ston ...