Charm and Grace don’t dare look at anything but the marble floor, while my eyes dart about, thirsty for the rich silks of the nobles’ clothes and the gold falcons carved into the majestic stone columns. I’ve nicknamed them in my head-Charm and Grace. “Thank you, Your Majesty,” the two girls echo, and I quickly mimic them. He is old, he is powerful, and he is bored-the most dangerous combination I can think of. The smile in them doesn’t reach his lips, though, a sure sign it’s only half-sincere. Dignity carves lines around his steel-colored eyes. His face is weathered with a handsome age. “You are all as lovely as rose blooms,” the king says finally. Mine taught me how to die, and not much else. Look More Attractive Than The Girl Next To You is the name of the game their mothers have been teaching them from birth. I’m doing more of a laughing internally at the way they carefully tilt their gorgeous heads and purse their pouts thing. I’d ask them, but we’re currently busy drowning in expensive lace and the silent stares of every gilded noble in the room. There are three of us three girls in cake-pink dresses, kneeling before King Sref’s throne. Old God’s teeth, what in the flaming afterlife do normal girls do again? Laugh like you’ve got nothing in your head. I briefly debate telling him humans don’t taste all that good, until I remember normal girls don’t eat raw flesh. King Sref of Cavanos watches me with eyes of a raven circling a corpse-patient, waiting to devour me the second I let my guard down. So begins a game of cat and mouse between a girl with nothing to lose and a boy who has it all. The Prince’s honor has him quickly aiming for her throat. She’s inelegant, smart-mouthed, carefree, and out for his blood. No one can challenge him – until the arrival of Lady Zera. Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a Prince’s heart in exchange for her own, with one addendum if she’s discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy her heart rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating nobles.Ĭrown Prince Lucien d’Malvane hates the royal court as much as it loves him – every tutor too afraid to correct him and every girl jockeying for a place at his darkly handsome side. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger’s control, she serves the witch unquestioningly. Bound to the witch Nightsinger ever since she saved her from the bandits who murdered her family, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. Zera is a Heartless – the immortal, unageing soldier of a witch. A lush, unique new fantasy trilogy about a girl tasked with stealing the prince’s heart…literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lovely Vicious series.
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