A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles #1)

by Foz Meadows

I felt a sudden, furious rush of sympathy for every Ralian woman who’d ever been the subject of marital bartering; I was ashamed of my prior indifference to the phenomenon, and wondered, with a certain, sick fascination, if being raised in expectation of such a fate made enduring it any easier. Remembering Lady Sine’s testimony, I doubted it.

If women were meant to be valued for their feminine skills, then why were the skills themselves devalued?

“Stolen me? As well to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.”