Fatemarked (The Fatemarked Epic, #1)

by David Estes

“Yes, yes. Heinrich Gäric was a great man and all that rubbish. I’ve heard it all before. But that was five hundred years ago, Father!” “And yet it’s study of the past that saves us from mistakes in the present,” the king said calmly.

I can’t lose her, he thought. For he knew if his Frieda died, the sun would no longer rise in the morn’ and the stars would refuse to appear in the even’ sky. Not for him.

Something his father once told him sprang to mind. ‘Confidence is your enemy. Thankfully, it’s also your enemy’s enemy.’