Summers at Castle Auburn

by Sharon Shinn

“Do you know how many kings and princes have been done away with by treachery? My own father had a taster every day of his life—” “And died when an edgy stallion threw him, so where’s the moral there?” Jaxon asked. “He’d have done better to worry less about spies in the kitchen and more about how to hold on to his horse.”

Your life here has not been free, Corie. It was your own innocence that protected you from realizing that.”

“You are too young to understand that the promises of the future cannot undo the harm of the past.”