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An Amazon Best BookA YALSA-ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book* “A thrilling read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review“A must-read for lovers of epic fantasy and fairy tales.” —USA Today“Fans of Tamora Pierce and George R.R. Martin, pick up this book!” —RT BookReviews, Top PickCROWN OF MIDNIGHT* “An epic fantasy readers will immerse themselves in and never want to leave.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“A thrill ride of epic fantasy proportions.” —USA Today“With assassinations, betrayal, love and magic, this novel has something tomatch everyone’s interests.” —RT Book Reviews, Top PickHEIR OF FIRE“Celaena is as much an epic hero as Frodo or Jon Snow!”—New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce“Readers will devour Maas’s latest entry.…A must-purchase.” —SLJ“Maas shines as a brilliant storyteller.… The most exhilarating installment yet.”—RT Book Reviews, Top PickQUEEN OF SHADOWSGoodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Young Adult
Fantasy and Science Fiction“The best, most exciting installment yet.… Each page teems with fierceintensity, romantic tension and propulsive suspense.” —USA Today“Sizzles with action, deception and sexual tension, making it the best yet.…Impossible to put down.” —RT Book Reviews, Top Pick“Beautifully written prose and brilliantly crafted plots come together in thisentry of the awe-inspiring fantasy series that will leave readers anticipating thenext volume.” —SLJ“Packed … with brooding glances, simmering sexual tension, twisty plot turns,lush world building, and snarky banter. Even better, Aelin’s tale is far from over:the final chapters of this installment promise more epic adventures and badderbad guys to defeat.” —Booklist“Character motivations and interactions—friendships, romances, and others—are always nuanced and on point, especially as Aelin’s growing maturity offersher new perspectives on old acquaintances. The ending leaves readers poised forthe next installment. Impossible to put down.” —Kirkus ReviewsTHE ASSASSIN’S BLADE“Fans will delight in this gorgeous edition. … Action-packed and full of insightinto Celaena’s character…. What a ride!” —Booklist
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It was an effort to put up that old
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flattered she held a knife to my th
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towering stacks of crates full of i
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been captured, Sorscha killed, and
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the map he wanted Ironteeth scouts
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while she used them for pleasure, a
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Coming from anyone else, even Sorre
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she’d spotted weeks ago but hadn
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She hadn’t seen this suit, hadn
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Large, slightly uptilted green eyes
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like. Or”—she gestured to the k
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Lysandra shifted on the couch. “A
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slipped a reassuring arm around Eva
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CHAPTER10Aedion’s vision was swim
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wounds. She shoved a tonic down his
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CHAPTER11The Shadow Market had oper
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breath. No distractions; no slip-up
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swaggering assassin incarnate. “I
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This wasn’t Wendlyn. The luxuriou
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Human in shape, but nothing more.Th
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to break the Crochan curse.Asterin
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it won’t disturb you, Lady.”“
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world had shifted to one side. Even
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CHAPTER13Aelin didn’t know whethe
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slave trade agreement, making Sam w
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“It was a present.”“Stick wit
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way to stay safe.”Lysandra just n
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down a box of chocolates without so
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boards of the wooden platform were
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expecting you tomorrow,” he went
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Night fell, and Aelin knew she was
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CHAPTER15Aedion Ashryver was ready
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CHAPTER16The demon made him sit on
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upper ends of her tattoo-covered sc
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Then she saw them.Written across th
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CHAPTER17Once Florine and the rest
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looking down the line at each dance
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a clashing, vibrant finale, each no
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sword, a direct attack to her chest
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she said to him, then launched hers
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clean into Aedion, who grunted in p
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two men atop the wall grunted with
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guard peering into the carriage wit
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cleaning him up. He should be fine,
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Aelin grimaced. “I could have liv
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Hellas’s consort—were brutal, b
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Elide shuddered as she took another
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family was originally from Rosamel,
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and a preachy twat, but … She ran
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him to insert some sort of stone in
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why raise this army … Why?” She
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CHAPTER22Chaol left his watch on th
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that still teemed with panicked peo
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known she had a sister. Or that she
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finally, finally she looked at him
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happened to him these past ten year
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Beneath her black mask, Aelin focus
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alone what he’d done to her throu
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CHAPTER24Chaol didn’t know what t
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use of the woman fighting with such
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attention wasn’t on the corpse be
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CHAPTER25Elide was washing dishes,
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Elide scrubbed at the pot. She’d
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“Bold, mad little thing,” the w
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“Manon,” Asterin began.“Wing
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elsewhere.”“Whatever would your
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CHAPTER26“I’m not about to keel
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prince.“Anyway,” Aelin said sha
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of her shirt every now and then. He
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she murmured. A chill went down Aed
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Maybe it had been selfish of him to
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CHAPTER27The creature rose, its bla
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“What were you doing that was so
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“It belongs to you,” she said a
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could hardly recognize one another,
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CHAPTER28She was shaking from head
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exactly, he picked up with those he
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with the water sliding off him.Gods
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honed by three centuries of trainin
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The two princes stared at each othe
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Rowan said, “I don’t know. Even
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you done to earn that? What have yo
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Aelin was well on her way to wearin
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“Maybe.” The thought was enough
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lunge for her hand, to touch the fa
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His eyes gleamed like an animal’s
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She grabbed a wooden spoon and push
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demon prince couldn’t find him.Th
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The duke surged for her, but then a
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armies, even if it decreases your n
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gobbled down than face whoever had
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CHAPTER32Manon had spotted Elide sl
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“Is she human, though?” Sorrel
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Turning toward Manon’s tower, she
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And yet—a kernel of understanding
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enemy at their backs … Shit. And
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boxes and bags in her arms. She had
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Fantastic. Arobynn, Lorcan, the kin
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in her tone, “but there are worse
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themselves by the water, she’d wa
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the curtains on the stage.She’d s
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slipped down a side street. A flock
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Three of his group had set to uncha
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CHAPTER36It didn’t take long for
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“I’ll rip out your throat befor
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locking the sliding door behind her
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CHAPTER37There were men screaming i
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A sly cat’s glance in Aelin’s d
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later.”Lysandra nodded and picked
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The invitation arrived by street ur
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CHAPTER39“Dead as dead can be,”
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the man, a hawk closing in on prey.
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another building, ready and waiting
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She shook her head, then shrugged.
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BelovedArobynn had left it blank—
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CHAPTER40Elide spent two days on vo
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Second door on the left. It was gou
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“It is an abomination!” Asterin
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but … I never believed them when
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Aedion was now lounging in a small
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CHAPTER42The front gates of the Ass
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deliberate slowness, he turned to R
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“Get out,” Arobynn said simply
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the peck of someone not entirely th
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made her start begging for mercy.
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clients and investors, when you fre
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Wesley’s letter had explained in
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boundless power dwelling inside of
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She just stared, waiting.“Do you
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he touched—”“I know what he t
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later.”She scowled. “Typical wa
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she whispered. “He was going to e
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flat and dull in a way she hadn’t
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For Wesley. For Sam. For Aelin.And
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CHAPTER46Today, Aelin decided, was
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CHAPTER47“What the rutting hell h
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“Boots,” Tern said at her side.
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faces carefully neutral.“It is my
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She made a thoughtful sound. “I s
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She didn’t even look at him. “C
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CHAPTER48Manon beat Asterin in the
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roar was muted in her dulled ears.
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CHAPTER49By midafternoon, Aelin had
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She stayed silent, so he mastered h
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He debated telling her that it was
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“To have seen the look on Clariss
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employees.”“She makes good brea
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“Gods above,” Chaol murmured fr
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Aelin scanned the bone temple. “W
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Aelin stepped up to the stone.Damar
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a key that can unlock any door—ev
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“Was there anything else you all
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other. And Edda and Briar, both of
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CHAPTER52As they left the Sin-Eater
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Dorian—they needed Dorian on the
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slumbering under that mountain.Mayb
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“Stop dancing around it and tell
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And that it would be a shame if he
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“Aelin,” he breathed. Not in re
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CHAPTER53Drink, the demon prince co
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her kind.It meant nothing, anyway.
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whisper of thought. Fire—it did n
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“They took her, they took her, th
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CHAPTER56A few hours later, seated
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She eyed her cousin, his golden hai
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CHAPTER57“I can smell them all ri
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two of them followed behind her esp
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CHAPTER58Manon Blackbeak hated this
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“I was told to keep my mouth shut
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death wish?”Do not speak to it.He
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It was all the distraction Aelin ne
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Wing Leader?”“No, Matron.” Th
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that kill be his last. But this wou
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The Wing Leader studied Aedion agai
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Aelin hadn’t believed for one mom
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CHAPTER60For a moment, the world st
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and lunged.Manon deflected the blow
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it, sending them both cracking to t
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the bridge as the island began to c
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Nesryn’s mouth tightened. “She
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She released the lever and pivoted
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She’d planned on telling the king
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CHAPTER63“Where on earth could yo
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None of the Thirteen had dared say
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against his worst, and still obey.
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Manon could hardly think, hardly br
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“I never went back to the hunter.
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CHAPTER64Rowan barely remembered an
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seemed like a pretty shitty way to
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Lysandra only wept harder.“But yo
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CHAPTER65Rowan was more tired than
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skin, Lorcan? Is it that she’s no
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frowned when nothing particularly e
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happy,” he said. And meant it. Sh
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place. My father never agreed with
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really burn.But he got out of bed,
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CHAPTER66Aelin ventured out at dawn
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WITCH KILLER—THE HUMAN IS STILL I
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everything.Then she smiled with eve
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Aedion gritted his teeth against th
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He was already moving, and she swor
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CHAPTER69Aelin’s black cloak flow
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before I left.” She pulled out tw
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but this …She had been in her hum
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instead sentenced to Endovier. The
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weapon if I don’t gain one in ret
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The bellow cost his brother. One cr
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She reached a glass-covered bridge
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Aelin had gotten out, and taken Dor
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CHAPTER73It was going to kill her.H
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you. You loved her. And they took h
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he had for centuries.Then the wind
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The bridge—this bridge that she a
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Aedion spat blood onto the debris.
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More soldiers rushed into the sewer
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CHAPTER76Aelin panted, fighting aga
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“Dorian?” she breathed.The demo
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So the world ended.And the next one
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CHAPTER78Aelin Galathynius stared a
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murdered my family.”“I came to
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For the city that had offered her j
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and flames danced at her fingertips
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is even more curious what will come
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and perhaps the cripple had gotten
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“Now.”Two of them shoved into t
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ripped out the throat of one man wi
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CHAPTER82Elide stared at the dark-h
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me, but I kept a piece of it. To re
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Elide didn’t say a word as Manon
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in pain, the rough healing he’d d
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two chambers in which the Crown Pri
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So he did. About the hellfire, and
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Bane, Aedion Ashryver walked into A
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CHAPTER84Dorian Havilliard had awok
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Beyond the window, the day was brig
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to heal it, not when he could make
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CHAPTER85Elide couldn’t stop cryi
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one who remembered them.But Manon h
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CHAPTER86“This is the last of you
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“I have no idea,” Aelin said.
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CHAPTER87The duke survived. So did
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Manon shook her head and grinned ba
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She shook her head. “I figured it
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Damaris, which Chaol had given to A
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to know that this was real and he w
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Three weeks of grueling travel—bu
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI think it’s commo
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KINGDOMS WILL COLLIDE.Don’t miss
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she’d die here, alone in this end
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One beat—then another not even a
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Don’t miss Sarah J. Maas’s capt
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PRAISE FORA COURT OF MIST AND FURY#
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