SCARLETT
I spent my whole life thinking I was the girl nobody keeps.
Now I know why. Someone hid me. So deep that it took five hundred years and one man's heart to find me again.
The truth didn't set me free. It put a crown on my head, a war at my door, and a king under the ground who has tasted my blood and wants the rest.
I'm done being the one who gets saved.
Let them send their nightmares. Let them send their gods. Let them try to lock me in a tower for my own good.
He tried that once. I walked out.
ALEKSANDR
I thought the worst thing in me was a dead king.
I was wrong. Under him there was something older. Something that fell. Something the gods chained once and want to chain again.
They have given me a choice. Surrender, or they take her.
I have never once in five hundred years asked anyone for permission.
I am not going to start now.
If the world wants her, it will have to come through me. And this time, I won't be standing in front of her. I'll be standing next to her.
This is the second book in The House of Crimson Series. Reading order:
House of Thirst.
House of Hunger.