Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths (The Peaches and Honey Duology Book 1)

by R. Raeta

There is beauty in the struggle, the way life pushes when the world says pull. He sees it in the way she gasps, fumbles, chokes. Clothed in ashes and rebirth, he watches as the terror in her eyes slowly gives way to wonder.

Anna learned early that lies can be kinder than truths, and that some fates are crueler than death.

Trust is fickle in the face of time. A doorway to betrayal; a plotted course to his end. Trust is only for the few whose magic binds them to the merciful. Incantations fall from his lips despite the pain, despite the blood. Old magic comes with costs.

She’s still a sparrow of a woman. Hollow-boned and fragile. Easily broken. He wonders how long it will take for her to realize that the thing that makes her weak is the same that will allow her to fly.

“Strength is learned,