Onyx Storm (The Empyrean Book 3)

The flier scoffs. “I don’t do second-years.”

“Good thing I fuck like a third.”

Tairneanach, son of Murtcuideam and Fiaclanfuil, descended from—”

The uprising suddenly failed overnight on December 13, 433 AU, in what has been called the Midnight Massacre. The foreign troops disappeared, and the rebels were killed in their beds by Poromish forces. It is not their disappearance that strikes this scholar as particularly vicious but their obvious betrayal. There is a saying in Deverelli: The word is the blood. When they make a trade, broker a deal, it is considered law. I cannot help but wonder what part of the deal the Krovlan rebels did not uphold