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

by Stacia Stark

Only two people had access to Sabium’s private graveyard. Sabium, so he could continue adding to his morbid collection, and me, so I could bear grim witness to my inevitable end.

“You can be buried here at any time,” he’d said. “No one will mourn you. No one will ever know why you disappeared. If you don’t comply, perhaps I will make you choose your own grave. Then I’ll make you lie in it, awake and aware, before I bury you.”

The threat had chilled me. And the thought of being buried alive—directly after choosing my resting place…it had driven almost all of the fight from me.

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

“You believe you have lost enough. That the gods wouldn’t be cruel enough to take more from you.” She shook her head. “You should never believe such things. The gods delight in cruelty.”