Aelin didn't know when she started crying, when her body began shaking with the force of it. She had never said such words- to anyone. Never let herself be that vulnerable, never felt this burning and...
A hand brushed my back. Then Rhys groaned, If we're all here, either things went very, very wrong or very right. Cassian's broken laugh cracked out of him.
A door opened at the far end of the hall, followed by rushing, light steps. He rose a heartbeat before a joyous Aedion! sang over the stones. Evangeline was beaming, clad head to toe in green woolen c...
He realized that here, amongst the dunes and stars … Here, in the heart of a foreign land … Here, with her, he was home.
I think my heart knew you were mine long before I ever realized it.
We do not look bad, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.''What if we go on only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?''...
Whatever you do, I said quietly, don’t marry Tomas Mandray. His father beats his wife, and none of his sons do anything to stop it. Nesta’s eyes widened, but I added, Bruises are harder to conceal tha...
There are different kinds of darkness, Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. I pictured each. There is the dark...
Then, Mother above, Nesta shifted her attention to Cassian, noticing that gleam—what it meant. She snarled softly, What are you looking at?Cassian’s brows rose—little amusement to be found now. Someon...
The words were casual, but that was panic in his eyes. Not-- not the controlling fear Tamlin had once succumbed to, but...genuine terror of not knowing where I was, i I needed help. Just as I would wa...
The mix of awe and anger and the realisation that the world was large, and beautiful, and sometimes so overwhelming in its wonder that it was impossible to drink it all down at once
That was fine—fair enough. We owed each other nothing beyond our promises to work and fight together. He could still be my friend. Companion—whatever this thing was between us. His taking someone to h...
That was all Celaena needed to hear before she tossed the ring to Maeve, before Rowan rushed to her, his hands on her cheeks, his brow against her own. Aelin, he murmured, and it wasn’t a reprimand, o...
That flicker he could have sworn he felt in answer, like the fluttering heart of an ember. Unleashing a cry that set the world trembling, Prince Rowan Whitethorn Galathynius, Consort of the Queen of T...
She’d been only eight when Arobynn Hamel, her mentor and the King of the Assassins, found her half-submerged on the banks of a frozen river and brought her to his keep on the border between Adarlan an...
She reached into the pocket of her riding leathers and extended the Amulet of Orynth and a sliver of black stone to Dorian. He balked. Elena said Mala’s bloodline can stop this. It runs in both your h...
She found the rolling earthen hills of the north in his eyes.
Selina Kyle blew out a long breath as she lifted her chin and stepped into the sound and the light and the wrath.
Sam was gone.Reality opened wide and swallowed her whole.She didn't move from the bed.
Rhys only winked as he gracefully escorted me right into that throne, the movement as easy and smooth as a dance. The crowd murmured as I sat, the black stone bitingly cold against my bare thighs. The...