THE BALLAD OF NEVER AFTER (ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART #2) BY STEPHANIE GARBER EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: STEPHANIE GARBER
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- Genre: Fantasy Romance Young Adult Fiction
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There is a door deep inside the royal library of Wolf Hall that no one has
opened for centuries. People have tried to set it on fire, break it with axes,
and pick its lock with magic keys. But no one has so much as left a scratch
on this stubborn door. Some say it mocks them. There is a wolf’s head
wearing a crown emblazoned on the door’s wooden center, and people have
sworn the wolf smirks at their failed attempts, or bares its sharp teeth if a
person even comes close to opening this unopenable door.
Evangeline Fox had once tried. She had pulled and tugged and twisted
the iron knob, but the door would not budge. Not then. Not before. But she
hoped it would be different now.
Evangeline was very good at hoping.
She was also rather good at opening doors. With one drop of her willing
blood, she could undo any lock.
First, she needed to be sure she wasn’t being watched or followed or
stalked by that deceitful, apple-eating scoundrel whose name she wouldn’t
even think.
Evangeline checked behind her shoulder. Her lantern’s ocher glow
chased the nearby shadows away, but the bulk of Wolf Hall’s royal library
stacks were nebulous with night.
She fidgeted nervously, and the lantern flickered. Evangeline had never
been afraid of the dark before. Dark was for stars and dreams and the magic
that took place in between days. Before losing her parents, she had
constellation-watched with her father and listened to her mother tell stories
by candlelight. And Evangeline had never been frightened.
But it wasn’t actually the dark or the night that she feared. It was the
spider-thin prickle crawling across her shoulder blades. It had been with her
since the moment she’d stepped out of her royal suite on a mission to
unlock this door, in the hopes it would lead her to a cure that would save
her husband, Apollo.
The uncanny sensation was so subtle, at first she let herself think it was
merely paranoia.
She wasn’t being followed.
She’d heard no steps.
Until …
Evangeline peered into the library’s dark, and a pair of inhuman eyes
stared back. Silver blue and brilliant and broken-star bright. She imagined
they shone just to taunt her. But Evangeline knew that even if they sparkled
now, even if these eyes lit up the dark and tempted her to lower her light,
she couldn’t trust them. And she couldn’t trust him.
Jacks. She tried not to think his name, but it was impossible not to as
she watched him saunter out of the dim, indolent yet confident and
handsome as ever. He moved as if the night should have been afraid of him.
The tingling of her shoulder blades slid over her arms, an unsettling
caress that went down to her one remaining broken heart scar. The wound
stung, then throbbed, as if Jacks had sunk his teeth into it again.
Evangeline clutched her lantern like a sword.
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