The Assassin and the Desert (Throne of Glass, #0.3)

by Sarah J. Maas

until she could strike like the asp, swift and unflinching.

three days dangling from the rafters of the fortress stables with the bats. It

endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget.

Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—