Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)

by Brynne Weaver

Hope can be beautiful. But it can also be brutal. It can keep your head above water just long enough to drown you in the next wave.

“It’s over because I love you, Rose. I’m sorry I spent so much time and effort trying not to. It was only because I didn’t think it was safe for you. I don’t think I knew how to fit into your wide-open world. But from the very first glance, from the first word, I was caught in your gravity. I wanted to be near you. And I couldn’t bear the thought of hurting you. But, lately, that’s the only thing in our cards, it seems.”

The sparrow is such a simple bird. I always wondered why you chose it, or why it was chosen for you. Because you’re the most exciting, outrageous, intimidating, incredible person I know.

Ultimately, all I want is for you to be happy, no matter what you need to do. But I am not done fighting for you. I love you. I’m not letting you go. I never will.

The only time anything started to feel right was when you came along.”

“Is that suit clean?” “Unfortunately,” I grumble. “Oh, Rowan—” “Don’t give him any sympathy, Lark. Pity makes him even more insufferable, the feckin’ twat.” “But look at him. He’s all sad and horny.” “Literally,” Sloane interjects, whacking one of my yellow horns as she heads toward the porch to give Lark a hug. “Also permanently green.”

She looked broken. But gleeful. Indomitable. Fucking indestructible. Not just a survivor, but a reckoning. A woman with more power than I ever imagined possible.

Once upon a time, my name was Autumn Bower. And I have my own story to tell.