Crown for a Cage

"e;I designed my own captivity."e;Ysol Vaereth has spent twenty-eight years being her family's most expensive piece — dressed, displayed, and deployed with the precision of a political instrument. When her mother arranges for her to be surrendered as a hostage to Queen Maren of Velmoor, no one suspects that the terms of the arrangement were quietly shaped by Ysol herself. The east tower. The libra...