She raises her hands, flexing the fingers and wrists. He wears the uniform of the Council Guard and the lean face of a veteran but she sees his true face in the leer of his shaded eyes. She sits and something moves in the gloom, a man stepping from the shadow into the meagre light. She lies on hard stone, cold and rough on her naked skin. “Keener than any hawk,” her father had said centuries ago, a rare compliment that had brought tears to her eyes then but brings nothing to these now. But then she recalls that her sight, her first body’s sight, had always been unusually sharp. For a moment she wonders if she has been reborn into a half-blind body, the Ally’s joke, or further punishment. The glow resolves into the flame of a single candle, not so clear as it should be. She wakes, her eyes finding a dim yellow glow in a world of shadow.
The following sample forms the third chapter in the book: Queen of Fire, Book 3 of the Raven’s Shadow trilogy will be released in ebook, hardcover and audiobook on July 2nd 2015 in the UK and July 7th in the US.
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