A Song to Wake a Thousand Sorrows (The Song Duology, #1)

by Michelle Manus

He looked at her like he was a drowning man and she something to cling to. Foolish, foolish man. Didn’t he know that she was drowning too? That life was drowning, and that if two people clung to each other too tightly in rough seas, they only drowned faster?

“you have not yet realized that I’m not the orchid. I am the wreckage left behind in the aftermath.” “Don’t sell yourself short—I see no reason you can’t be both.”

“Excellent.” She walked to the wall, found handholds and toeholds. “I could let you in through the ordinary channels,” he called down. “And have it be said I needed assistance rescuing a gentleman in distress?”