The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow, #1)

by Margaret Owen

‘When you act in anger, you have already lost your battle.’”

“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” he said. “The most powerful people in the kingdom can’t even say the problem is real.” “They know it is,” Fie said grimly, scanning the dark for torches. “Otherwise they wouldn’t be so hell-bent on pretending it isn’t.”

“Pa says change always has a price.” Fie stared at dawn’s edge in the eastern sky. “That even Phoenixes need ashes to rise.”