The Court of Fire

The days that followed blurred into a storm.

Tessa’s footsteps carried her back to the one woman she had sworn she would never seek again. It was almost laughable how her promises had dissolved in the acid of desperation. When she first arrived at the mansion gates, the guards looked her up and down with suspicion. But when they carried her name inside, Lady Bianca summoned her at once, like a hunter who already smelled prey.

The meeting was not filled with theatrics. ...