Nightfall (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #6)

by Shannon Messenger

Prentice had been a Keeper for the Black Swan, in charge of protecting their most valuable secrets—the most important of which had been Sophie’s existence. And back then, the few elves who knew about the Black Swan had believed that the shadowy organization was run by villains. So when Alden discovered Prentice’s involvement, he had him arrested and brought before the Council. The Councillors ordered a memory break—a brutal method of extracting memories by telepathically shattering the person’s sanity—and assigned Quinlin and Alden to perform the task. They both gave Prentice a final chance to cooperate, but Prentice held firm, letting them turn him into a babbling, drooling mess in order to keep Sophie hidden. And Quinlin and Alden had spent the next twelve years scouring the human world to find her, while Prentice spent the same years locked away in Exile as his wife was murdered and his

STOP.