The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

by Namina Forna

Girls can’t shout, drink, ride horses, go to school, learn a trade, learn to fight, move about without a male guardian—we can’t do anything that doesn’t somehow relate to having a husband and family and serving them.

What if they were meant to cage us instead?

The breath I didn’t know I was holding

There it is