The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1)

by Jenn Lyons

“Listen,” Lady Miya told him. “Mourn for those you have lost. Hold them in your heart and never forget them. Trust none of us in this house of pain.

Except real evil isn’t a demon or a rogue wizard. Real evil is an empire like Quur, a society that feeds on its poor and its oppressed like a mother eating her own children. Demons and monsters are obvious; we’ll always band together to fight them off. But real evil, insidious evil, is what lets us just walk away from another person’s pain and say, well, that’s none of my business.”