Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

by Kika Hatzopoulou

Gods, would she be the first person to ever get their destined lover to dislike them? A fate-thread of hate—Ava would get a good laugh out of that one.

“Listen,” he said, “if it’s any worth, I understand. There is violence in kindness, and kindness in violence.”

She coughed, chuckled, coughed again. “Enough! I’m not a baby.” “Ehh, I could argue with that,” Ava teased.

the once singular moon split into three—Pandia, Nemea, and Ersa—causing the sea level to rise globally.

But despite every scientist’s prediction, despite the very laws of nature, the shifting earth and sea never calmed.

“If he seizes you, remember that you feel fear every day and yet you keep going.”

“Feel your fear and keep going anyway. By Edei Rhuna.” Chimdi said it as though she was quoting from a great wordsmith. Nico chuckled.

“Don’t look fear in the eye,” said Chimdi, “by Edei—hey!”

Destiny robs us of choice, and I can’t live like that. I won’t.”

“People from the Silts?” Io interrupted, trying to hide her irritation. Criticizing Thais never went well; you had to be careful with your tone of voice, cautious with your phrasing. “You’re from the Silts, Thais.”

“Someone wise told me once that tolerating wickedness is just a slow kind of death.”

“So you almost stargazed to death?”

“Young Cutter Meets Her End While Stargazing. Now that’s a gripping headline.”

“There was no stargazing involved!”

“You should introduce yourself like that. Io Ora, private detective, extreme ...