Their family might not have looked alike, but the two of them did—the brown hair they’d inherited from their father, who’d died when Briony was three and Innes was two; the fair, freckled skin they got from their mother, who, in her grief, had left Ilvernath behind. She didn’t take her daughters with her, and she had never come back for them. The sisters were raised in the Thornburns’ prized historic estate by a rotating cast of aunts and uncles and cousins; but mostly, they were raised on stories of the Thorburns’ noble history. The ways they’d used high magick to better Ilvernath whenever
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