Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)

by Devney Perry

“Are you angry, Sparrow? Use that rage. Fucking. Fight.” I hate you. If he could read my mind, I wanted that at the front. I hate you. A slow grin stretched across his mouth. “There’s my queen.” “Stop calling me that,” I seethed. “Make me.”

I wasn’t ready to submit myself to the God of Death. Not yet.

A man who smelled of spice and earth. Leather and wind. Ransom.

“Stop asking questions, Ransom, and kiss your wife.”

You’ll never forget. All you can do is keep on living.”

“I’ve got you,” Ransom murmured. “I won’t let go.”

And Ransom, my Guardian, turned to fight. To show that bitch who the real monster in Calandra was.

“Where are you going?” Cathlin called. I kept walking. “To find my wife.”