The Third Daughter by Adrienne Tooley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Adrienne Tooley
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- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Depression
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On the final day of mourning, the wind shifted west, and the third
daughter of a third daughter took the throne. Watching from above was the
slighted eldest sister, clutching the balcony’s divider with white knuckles as
the Chaplain placed a crown atop the maiden-queen’s head.
Elodie was pissed.
Her brother, Rob, placed a hand on her arm in warning. At sixteen, he
was only thirteen months her junior and therefore much too perceptive of
Elodie’s moods. She smiled placidly, hoping to appease him, but she could
feel his gaze burning a hole in her empty expression as she stared down at
the Chaplain, who was leading a spirited rendition of “Prayer for the Virgin
Maiden.” The choice of hymn was a bit too on the nose for Elodie’s liking.
The Queen of Velle had passed only three days prior, yet her crown was
already perched atop the head of another. Elodie’s youngest sister, Brianne,
was merely thirteen years old—with bumbling, pitifully earnest energy that
made the courtiers titter and her siblings roll their eyes. But Velle had been
waiting nearly three hundred years for the New Maiden to return, and now
She had: as Brianne Elisabet, the third daughter of third daughter Tera
Warnou, the late Queen of Velle.
The Church of the New Maiden had practically fallen over themselves
rewriting the laws of inheritance. Before the ink of Brianne’s birth
announcement had even dried, the entire country knew that one day she
would take the throne and—according to prophecy—clean, revive, and heal
the world.
Elodie thought that was quite a lofty promise, all things considered.
“That crown is too big for her head,” Rob laughed good-naturedly as he
peered down at Brianne. The slight waif of a girl was dressed in a lavish
gown of aubergine, cinched at the waist and fanning out like water falling
over the edge of a cliff. The careful gold stitching glimmered in the
afternoon light that poured through the church’s northwest window.
“Not for long, the way people keep fawning over her,” Elodie muttered,
looking down at her own gown of gray, its subtle silver thread hardly a
mark of distinction. In Velle, the queen’s first daughter was supposed to
inherit the crown, but Elodie’s role as the heir apparent was short-lived.
She’d been only four years old when she was cast aside for the prophesied
Third Daughter. Now seventeen, Elodie ought to be used to their altered
hierarchy. Yet moments like this one left her smarting.
“Be nice, El,” Cleo piped up from her left. The middle Warnou sister
was caught between loyalties. “She looks beautiful.” Tears of joy
glimmered in the fifteen-year-old’s eyes as she stared down at Brianne, yet
her body was still turned decidedly toward Elodie, as a silent but stalwart
supporter.
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