After being left at the altar by the prince she was promised to, a young woman is forced into a marriage with a king who is already dead. Bound to a husband who exists somewhere between life and death, she must navigate a dangerous royal court and the strange powers that come with her new crown.
Trying to poison me twice? If I wanted you dead, your majesty, I would simply stop helping. Seven days. Seven days I lay there, unable to move.
I heard my lords divide my land, my priest sell his oath, and your imperial envoy discuss which woman would send into my grave. Cassian didn't know what this rite meant. You still believe that?
He signed a marriage wretch. No. He signed for a death bribe. Read it.
All of it. He knew. Your prince's envoy made certain we knew the order came from him. He told me to trust him.
That men say many things before they close a grave. I have the evidence I need. Do you want revenge? Very much.
No. Do you want to live? do you want to live name your price make cassia no i spent three years waiting for him to choose me i'm not spending the next three making him regret it the drug is still in your blood i can
keep your heart beating long enough to get us out and in return teach me to do what what they understand law power which man bows because he must and which one only bows until your back is