Daejong’s words kept playing in my head over and over. There was so much that I still didn’t know about Varon, and about what had pushed him to kill his father. But what I did know of him now made me wonder what else there was to the story.

Could he really be a coldhearted killer? I was beginning to doubt it.

He killed his father, there was no question about that. But I was just as certain that there was way more to the story than what was ...