Chapter 5 In Which the Truth Must Remain Silent
If anyone had told me the man I despised most would be my first kiss, I would have laughed in their face.
By midmorning, everyone in the palace seemed to have their own version of our wedding night. The whispers followed me through every corridor. A shattered vase. An overturned table. A heated ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 In Which Peace Demands a Bride
2. Chapter 2 In Which I Make My First Ally
3. Chapter 3 In Which I Prepare to Kill a King
4. Chapter 4 In Which the King Refuses to Die
5. Chapter 5 In Which the Truth Must Remain Silent
6. Chapter 6 In Which the Queen's Mask Slips 
7. Chapter 7 In Which the King Cannot Afford to Hesitate
8. Chapter 8 In Which a Monster Comes to Dinner
9. Chapter 9 In Which the King Loses Another Brother
10. Chapter 10 In Which the Dead Rise and the Queen Is Taken
11. Chapter 11 In Which I Find a Way to Expose a Monster and Nearly Freeze to Death
12. Chapter 12 In Which Blood Reveals the Enemy
13. Chapter 13 In Which Old Feelings Begin to Fade
14. Chapter 14 In Which Boundaries Are Ignored
15. Chapter 15 In Which I Refuse to Be Left Behind
16. Chapter 16 In Which We Ride into the Wilderness 
17. Chapter 17 In Which the Night Calls Them to War
18. Chapter 18 In Which I Learn There Are Worse Things Than Wolves
19. Chapter 19 In Which a Theory Takes Shape
20. Chapter 20 In Which the Cold Trail Leads Back
21. Chapter 21 In Which the Door Was Unlocked
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