The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Crowns of Nyaxia, #3)

by Carissa Broadbent

“This is… ​something,” panted Elias, the way one might say, I hate everything about this.

“We all have ghosts in our pasts, Iliae. We can’t give them the power to define our futures, too.”

“It doesn’t make the love worth less,” I said quietly, “just because you can’t help her the way you wish you could.”

“Do you think that I don’t know what darkness is?” I said. “Why? Because I smile too much? Because I talk too much? It’s my choice to be the way that I am. A choice that I make even when it’s hard. That doesn’t make me weak,

felt like a princess, and not the murderous vampire kind,