Extraits

“I’m going to kill her.”

“That’s treason.”

“Seriously injure her.”

“Still treason.”

"I won´t let my scars define me. Not anymore. From now on, they´re a symbol of what I have left to fight for."

“We are the leaders of Rhodaire. Our duty is to our kingdom, not ourselves.”

“You’re my sister. Your duty should be to me.”

"He was everywhere; I couldn’t escape him. Surely, it would only be worse in Illucia. He was in my head, in my thoughts and my emotions. He’d burrowed underneath my skin with his vicious smiles and barbed, caustic words, and everywhere I went, there he was."

"Still, I clung to the rising hope, feeling as if I balanced on a glass precipice, waiting for it to shatter and send me careening into the nothingness like so many times before.

I knew what I needed to do, but working up the will to do it felt like trying to fight my way above water in a depthless ocean.

It was so hard not to drown.”