Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: Carissa Broadbent
- Genre: Dark Fantasy Horror, Dark Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery Fantasy eBooks
- Publish Date: 10 February 2022
- Size: 2.5 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
PROLOGUE
Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love?
The woman knows the tower, now.
She knows every angle of its imposing shape as it rises from the surf. She
knows the way the whorls carved into its surface feel beneath her palms. She
knows how the bone-white stone looks smeared with her blood. She knows
its scent, acrid and stagnant, like death itself.
She knows everything, except for how to break it.
This place has taken something from her, you see. Taken the most
precious thing.
Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do to get him back?
Anything. Everything.
The first time she tries, it is an act of pure desperation. She has conquered
cities and defeated armies. She has ended wars. Surely she is powerful
enough to do this.
Now she does not need to conquer a city, just a single prison.
She does not need to free a civilization. Just one person.
The stone strikes her down like a palm to a fly. Minutes, and she is
crashing back into the surf, pulled out again by friends who barely manage to
escape with their lives.
But the woman knows nothing if not how to fail.
So she tries again, again, again. She collects another scar, another night of
an aching heart, and a little more of her dies. She gets up and goes again.
The last night is stormy and dark—the sort of night yanked from horror
stories. Her friends beg her not to go. Wait one more day, they say. If the
guards don’t kill you then the storm will.
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