House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2)

by Sarah J. Maas

“I wasn’t at the gathering. She sought me out while she was there.” “Why?” “Because she was researching shifter ancestry. Mine is … unique.” “You shift into a dog,” Bryce raged. “What’s unique about that?” Even Hunt gave her a disapproving frown. She didn’t care. She was sick of these surprises about Danika, about all the things she’d never known— “She wanted to know about my shifter ancestry. Really old shifter ancestry that manifested in me after years of lying dormant. She was examining the most ancient bloodlines in our world and saw a name on an early ancestor’s family tree that could be traced all the way to the last living descendant: me.” “What the Hel could you even tell her if it was that ancient?” Hunt asked. “Ultimately, nothing. But once we knew we were mates, once we’d sealed it … She started to open up about what she was looking into.” “Was it about the synth?” Bryce asked. “No.” Baxian clenched his jaw. “I think the synth was a cover for something else. Her death was because of the research she was doing.” Through love, all is possible. One last clue from Danika. To look where she’d stamped the phrase—right on this male. So Bryce said, “Why did she care about any of this?” “She wanted to know where we came from. The shifters, the Fae. All of us. She wanted to know what we’d once been. If it might inform our future.” Baxian’s throat worked. “She was also … She told me she wanted to find an alternative to Sabine.” “She was the alternative to Sabine,” Bryce sn...