Gild (The Plated Prisoner, #1)

by Raven Kennedy

But memory and time aren’t friends. They reject each other, they hurry in opposite directions, pulling the binding taut between them, threatening to snap. They fight, and we inexplicably lose. Memory and time. Always losing one as you go on with the other.

You can have all the gold in the world and yet lack everything of real worth.

Men making deals on the behalf of women never seems to go very well for the women.