Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)

by Carissa Broadbent

Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love?

Death was like a lost lover. We circled each other. I craved more with every brush of its touch. All I wanted was for it to take me to its bed and never let me leave.

Tell me, my ashen son, do you know how much a million memories weigh? How about one? It weighs enough to break a spine. It weighs enough to break a soul.

A realization came to me, one that I had been grappling with for the last ten years. There was no single moment when everything changed. No single before and after. There was just… life. A million decisions and a million consequences.

How much does a memory weigh? Too much to carry alone.

My name is Tisaanah Vytezic. I am a leader of a broken country and lover of an imperfect soul. And I will not let him die here. Neither of us will die here.

I’ve fought monsters and faced death and survived imprisonment, and yet, the single most terrifying moment of my life was the day I held

my daughter for the first time. I had never loved so deeply nor feared so intensely.