The Devil Dances TooSophia's POV

The Grand Ballroom of the Royal Castle had not been opened in three years.

I learned this from Elara, who learned it from one of the senior housemaids, who had been at the castle long enough to remember the last time its doors were unsealed — a winter celebration that had ended abruptly, midway through the evening, when the King had received news that his betrothed had been found dead in the lake. The musicians had stopped playing. The candles had been ...