The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Crowns of Nyaxia, #2)

by Carissa Broadbent

Humans mourn time, because it’s the only currency that really matters in a life so short.

People don’t really talk about how the days that make history, the days that change the course of entire civilizations, start in such mundane ways.

As a young man, I used to think that bravery was the absence of fear. No. I’d learned since then that the absence of fear was only stupidity.