The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

by Rachel Gillig

You want to throw me down. And I, prideful, disdainful, godless, want to drag you into the dirt with me.

“Perhaps,” I murmured. “Then again, someone rather wise once said, ‘Traum’s histories are forged by those who benefit from them, and seldom those who live them.’”

“Bartholomew does not know how to swim. But worry not—” He looked up at me. Smiled proudly. “She has always excelled at drowning.”