The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)

by Sarah J. Maas

Her beauty was a weapon—one she kept honed—but it could also be a vulnerability.

“We’ve grown up together.” Sam stopped at the foot of her bed. “You think I don’t know how to tell when you’re cooking up some scheme?

Sam went so still that he might have been turned into stone. “I knew you were thinking up something—but freeing them …” “I’m going to do it with or without you.”

Sam’s gaze drifted northward, as if he could see the sprawling capital city and its towering glass castle. “I think there’s more at work here than this trade agreement.”

Orynth. A city of light and music, watched over

by an alabaster castle with an opal tower so bright it could be viewed for miles. The moonlight

“There are thousands of slaves out there. Are you going to march into Calaculla and Endovier and free them, too?”