This Ends in Embers (Divine Traitors, #2)

by Kamilah Cole

Because of her and her sister, Deadegg was a corpse reduced to bones and viscera and a river of still-flowing blood. Her sister, Faron, had dealt the killing blow to the town. Now, Elara was left to stitch the remains back together, at least long enough to autopsy the mistakes that had led them to where they were.

Instead of the usual coldness, she saw understanding. “If you cannot be their saint, why not be their villain? Why chase fame when you could live in infamy?”

I’ve always believed that what we know isn’t as important as how we choose to act on it, he’d said then,