Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)

by Devney Perry

“When I am nothing but dust and ash, Turah will endure. I do not need a crown. And I have made peace with my destiny. But before I step into my grave, my choice is you.”

The fall would break me apart, and though the fragments would stitch together again, the woman I’d been once would be gone. I was his.

There was something dark, something dangerous, in the tone of his voice. A promise that if I obeyed, I’d get everything I wanted and more.

“I will find you. Here, or in the shades.”

The crux landed at his back, the ground shaking as she dropped. And Ransom, my Guardian, turned to fight. To show that bitch who the real monster in Calandra was. To give us time to run.