The Rose & the Dagger (The Wrath and the Dawn, #2)

by Renée Ahdieh

“But, if you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down . . .” Her words began to sound muffled, as though she were underwater, yet her smile continued to burn bright. “Cut the strings, Shazi. Fly.”

With everyone else, he was chipped ice on a mountain. With her sister, he was a summer breeze across the sea.