A Game of Love and Betrayal (The Choosing Chronicles, #1)

by Elayna R. Gallea

Personally, Brynleigh would rather live in leggings. They were comfortable and convenient, and she always felt beautiful in them.

Same girl.

Sentimentality was for the weak, and this was but a stop on her road to revenge.

Her mother, the gods be with her soul, had always taught Brynleigh and her sister that remaining silent was the best course of action if they didn’t have anything kind to say. It had never been more difficult than it was at this very moment.

the worst types of people were the ones who waited in the shadows for the perfect moment to strike.

Estrella, along with many of the vampires who’d lived in the Four Kingdoms, had voluntarily entered a deep sleep when the Republic was founded. Tales were told of the older vampires, who’d grown weary of life and required a rest. Their location was a well-kept secret, known only by a select few.

Curious if this is foreshsdowing?

He smelled of thunderstorms and bergamot,

The Northern Region, previously known as the Kingdom of Eleyta, was the ancestral home of the vampires in the Republic of Balance.

Seconds ticked by. Minutes? Hours? He couldn’t be sure. His entire existence was focused on this one gentle caress. It was at once too much and not at all enough.

His eyes shone brightly as if he were a dying man, and looking at her was the only cure to his ailment.

“It’s like you were missing something, but you didn’t know what it was until they were right before you.”