1. Chapter 1 The Wrong Kind of Mercy

2. Chapter 2 The Terms of Survival

3. Chapter 3 What the Prince Did Not Say

4. Chapter 4 The Dead Girl's Notes

5. Chapter 5 What Lives in the Dark

6. Chapter 6 Do Not Make a Sound

7. Chapter 7 The Shape of a Trap

8. Chapter 8 Nine Days

9. Chapter 9 The Blue Door

10. Chapter 10 What My Mother Left Behind

11. Chapter 11 The Word for Return

12. Chapter 12 A Conversation Between Equals

13. Chapter 13 The Attendant Who Waited

14. Chapter 14 What the Dead Girl Knew

15. Chapter 15 The Turnip Ledger

16. Chapter 16 The Name Aldren Would Not Say

17. Chapter 17 The Weight of a Borrowed Name

18. Chapter 18 The Language of Keepers

19. Chapter 19 Three Days

20. Chapter 20 The King Sends for His Son

21. Chapter 21 What the King Believed

22. Chapter 22 The Night We Chose

23. Chapter 23 The Missing Phrase

24. Chapter 24 The Sixth Line

25. Chapter 25 What She Chose

26. Chapter 26 The Morning After

27. Chapter 27 The Quiet Weeks