Chapter 7 In Which the King Cannot Afford to Hesitate

I did not sleep well after discovering that the woman who called herself Vane's mother was wearing a dead woman's face.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Cynthia's features ripple beneath my skin.

By dawn, I had given up trying to sleep .

I rose before the keep had woken and wrapped a wool shawl...

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Chapters

1. Chapter 1 In Which Peace Demands a Bride

2. Chapter 2 In Which I Make My First Ally

3. Chapter 3 In Which I Prepare to Kill a King

4. Chapter 4 In Which the King Refuses to Die

5. Chapter 5 In Which the Truth Must Remain Silent

6. Chapter 6 In Which the Queen's Mask Slips

7. Chapter 7 In Which the King Cannot Afford to Hesitate

8. Chapter 8 In Which a Monster Comes to Dinner

9. Chapter 9 In Which the King Loses Another Brother

10. Chapter 10 In Which the Dead Rise and the Queen Is Taken

11. Chapter 11 In Which I Find a Way to Expose a Monster and Nearly Freeze to Death

12. Chapter 12 In Which Blood Reveals the Enemy

13. Chapter 13 In Which Old Feelings Begin to Fade

14. Chapter 14 In Which Boundaries Are Ignored

15. Chapter 15 In Which I Refuse to Be Left Behind

16. Chapter 16 In Which We Ride into the Wilderness

17. Chapter 17 In Which the Night Calls Them to War

18. Chapter 18 In Which I Learn There Are Worse Things Than Wolves

19. Chapter 19 In Which a Theory Takes Shape

20. Chapter 20 In Which the Cold Trail Leads Back

21. Chapter 21 In Which the Door Was Unlocked

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