One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

by Rachel Gillig

“There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King... and the monster they became.”

When the shadows grow long, when our names turn to dust, what we loved, what we hated, will spoil to rust. All will be forgotten, save one truth, unshaken... What did we do when the children were taken?

This game is a war, darling, the Nightmare called. And the Chalice—the truth—is the greatest weapon of all.

Who are you? Ravyn demanded, shouting into the blackness. The Nightmare was untouched by his distress. The shepherd of the shadow. The phantom of the fright. The demon in the daydream. The nightmare in the night.