The Serpent and the Wolf (Dark Inheritance Trilogy, #1)

by Rebecca Robinson

Even warlords were men, after all, and men were almost always their own downfall.

“I was born on the ice,” she reminded him. “That doesn’t mean you deserve to be cold.”

“Just because this is all you have ever known, it does not mean it is all you will ever be.”

“The choices of others are not a burden I carry any longer, and neither is their shame.”