They told her the king’s law was sacred. That the Rite of Silence kept the gods from turning their backs on Valcrest. That two farmers hanged in a market square were a lesson, not a murder.
Wren Ashby was six months old when her parents paid for a stranger’s life with their own. She doesn’t remember the hanging. She’s never stopped hearing about it.
Raised in exile by the very man her parents died hiding, Wren returns to Valcrest twenty years later as Lady Wren Sorrell a noblewoman with a spotless lineage and a court full of secrets to unravel. She came for the king’s head. She didn’t come for his son’s attention, or for the truth buried under the Rite of Silence a truth that will unmake everything she thought she knew about the night she lost everything.
The crown made her an orphan. She’s about to make it pay in kind.
