Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros

Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.

“It’s hard to leave behind everything you know, everything you love, because your honor demands it.

The problem with mankind is we too often find our souls to be a fair price for power.