A Crown This Cold and Heavy (Kingdom of Lies, #3)

by Stacia Stark

“I will search every inch of this continent if that is what it takes. I will slaughter anyone who stands in my way. Prisca will live. I will make sure of it.”

“Falling in love with Prisca was the most inconvenient thing to ever happen to me. And if I had never met her, I would have lived a long, empty life.”

I didn’t need anything for myself. I didn’t know I could have anything myself. And then I met her, and for the first time in my long life, I needed.”

I needed you to choose me, Prisca. Because I would choose you ten thousand times over, every day for the rest of my life.”

I’d been certain that love was being willing to give someone up if that was what was best for them. But I was wrong. Love was being willing to fight. It was being willing to stand up and say, It’s you and me, we’re in this together, and gods help anyone who attempts to tear us apart.

Your heart doesn’t stop beating when you lose someone you love. The world doesn’t end. It just feels like it does.