The Rivaled Crown (The Veiled Kingdom, #3)

by Holly Renee

I grabbed onto the statue, my magic crackling beneath my skin and colliding with the magic that pulsed within the statue as I climbed. The statue was slick with condensation, but every place my fingers touched, heat surged through the rock. Verena. Her name whispered through me in a voice that wasn’t my own. A woman’s voice that called out for her until I reached for the opening, my skin slipping away from the stone. It stopped immediately, my head feeling too quiet as I pulled myself the rest of the way up. Wren and Kai were already crouched near the edge of the passage, our view blocked by twisting vines. Wren turned, her eyes glinting. “You’re not going to believe this.” I glanced past her, where her hands pulled at the trailing plant, and the capital city stretched before us, quiet and still beneath the stars. We weren’t in the palace yet. We were on the streets just outside my grandmother’s house.