The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

He could not love her; therefore, he did not love her.

She and Kel were similar in that way, Lin thought: They lived within walls both real and imagined, bound by the expectations and plans of others. And as for whose faces they saw when they closed their eyes at night, they kept that to themselves.

But Gremont is unusual—so loathsome the other nobles had taken the step of sending him away from Castellane. And he’d hurt Merren, the person in the world who least deserved to be hurt.