Every Spiral of Fate (This Woven Kingdom, #4)

by Tahereh Mafi

certain that power and position would bring her protection. She’d been the feeble tree fearing the tremble of fruitless branches; but now, weighed down with plenty, she feared the rot of all this bounty and the blade that might cut her down for daring to flourish.

Had anyone ever been tender with her mind? she wondered. The poor thing was brutalized.