One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

by Rachel Gillig

“Yours isn’t a face I’d soon forget, Miss Spindle.”

Her hatred stung, but it did not startle me. If anything, I felt a small relief, the veil between us finally falling.

“Of all the things I pretend at,” he said, his thumb drawing small, gentle circles along my waist, “courting you has proven the easiest.”