Blackflame (Cradle, #3)

by Will Wight

With a new family at his side, Jai Long marched to destroy his old one.

The powerful have no mercy for those who step on their reputations.”

Sometimes the game is rigged against you, and your only option is to flip the board.”

His demeanor was cheery as ever, but his smile had shrunk to nothing more than tightened lips. Maybe this was his serious face.

Even the wind couldn't sneak up on Eithan.

“There’s an old saying about asking forgiveness rather than permission,” Eithan said, “but the essence of it is, ‘I’m going to do what I want.’”

He straightened with a tailor’s scissors in one hand and a janitor’s broom in the other, standing over the lord of a warrior clan whose spear had failed.