Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)

by Sarah J. Maas

she’d thought him dead … She had never known such fear. She had never prayed as she had in those moments

You must enter where you fear to tread.

Aelin frightens everyone.” He snorted. “But not him. I think that’s why she fell in love with him, against her best intentions. Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid.”

What if we go on, only to more pain and despair? Aelin had smiled at his question, posed on that rooftop in Rifthold. As if she had understood, long before he did, that he would find this pit. And learn the answer for himself. Then it is not the end.

And the breaking that had started and ended here … Yes, it belonged to him. He was allowed to break, so that this forging might begin.