"Unable to resist, he kissed her wounds, and her cold blood touched his lips. He tasted it with his tongue and lost it, almost dropping her to the ground. There was something strange in this girl’s blood. It was unlike anything he had ever tasted, like sweet wine with roses and something electrifying he couldn’t name." 

Queen of Blood and Roses is created by Alexandra Lynch, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Queen of Blood and Roses

The scouts General Lark had sent out reported that the raiders’ camp that they had spotted a few leagues away was gone. It seemed to have been abandoned overnight, they said, which probably meant that his army had done its fighting in the castle last night. Several things from the camp had been brought over, and he had them looked at by his lieutenants. 


There was nothing of note, save for a few costumes that would be taken back to Starfall as evidence, in case anyone back home wondered how a masquerade ball had turned into a battlefield. Prince Acheron had come to Shaldania to take out a band of Fae raiders, and now he was returning home from a very different kind of battle. 


Chapter 15: Hidden in Plain Sight