Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1)

by Sarah Rees Brennan

Beneath her hand she felt the rhythmic thunder of his heart. As though he were a real living person. As though she held the drums of war in the hollow of her hand.

“Sometimes rage is all women can give each other.

“I love you as a knife loves a throat,” he murmured as the dead overwhelmed her. “I crawled out of hell to fall at your feet.”