The Wraith King (The Rise of Northgall, #1)

by Juliette Cross

It would have given my father appalling joy to seduce my mother’s sister. Or worse, violate her

and sire sons on her. Now I knew why Mother had appeared sad and anxious at th...

Dalya’s vision echoed back to me. Two sides of the same coin. Demon-fae. One true, one not. Beware the raven’s back, for he seeks your place…in all things. Meck, the true one. His brother—my brother—Ferryn sought my pl...

“Half, actually. We shared the same father, which gives me the right to sit on the throne of Näkt Mir.

It still galled me I’d never known they were nekliam. It was a rare gift and one that could’ve helped their king. But it seemed Ferryn had ulterior motives from the moment he and Meck presented themselves to be considered for my Kel Klyss. And Meck was more loyal to his brother than his king. I could understand that. Still, if Meck had confided in me, he might still be alive.

And finally, there was Dalya. We’d found her in the cave where Ferryn had taken Una, strangled. It broke my heart that she’d come to such an end.

I’d cried all my tears for my Papa and wiped them all with the handkerchief that was once Goll’s mother’s. My father was the one who started a war he shouldn’t have but he’d done it out of love for his daughter. And perhaps some selfishness and prejudice of his own. He wasn’t perfect. But he was my father, and I loved him.

I confessed. “It reminds me of you. And wherever you are is my home.”