Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)

by Victoria Aveyard

“Take your sword and bleed for me, and I will bleed for you. Win us the crown our ancestors could only dream of.”

I asked for gold and he paid it. I set a higher price than any before. All the wealth of Iona, an immortal queen’s treasure laid at my feet. He promised it without thought. And when I asked for his life, for his throat cut by my own hand, in a place of my choosing, before the eyes I wanted . . . he didn’t hesitate to promise me that too.

Immaculate.

“There are breakers of castles, breakers of chains, breakers of kings and kingdoms,” she said, her voice iron. “Which am I?” Power surged through her veins, delicious and seductive. She wanted more; she needed more. “You are a realm breaker, Taristan. You would crack this world apart and build an empire from its ruins.”

With deliberate motions, never breaking her gaze, Taristan laid a palm to the keen blade. “Let me bleed for you,” he murmured.