A Kingdom of Venom and Vows (Stars and Shadows, #3)

by Holly Renee

I could still taste copper in my mouth as I thought about how my father and brother had both stood there while they watched Queen Kaida unleash her pain on me. She had wanted answers, she wanted my mate, and I had refused to give her anything. Queen Kaida hated to be refused. She hated it almost as much as she hated me. The bastard son of her king who was born to do nothing but ruin her plans. That was how she had always seen me, and I had spotted the poison in her eyes the moment I was first brought to the fae kingdom by my father. She only wanted me there because she thought she could train me, to turn me into whatever she wanted, but I refused to allow her to break me. Regardless of how much I allowed her to believe otherwise. She had thought that she had molded me into the weapon she needed, the weapon to surge her son into power, and for many years, she had. I had been the sword she drove between the kingdoms until I truly saw the evil that lay beneath her veil.