Scars Beneath a Serpent’s Scales (The Fatesworn Saga #1)

Scars Beneath a Serpent’s Scales (The Fatesworn Saga #1)

Author: Nicole Platania Listening Length: 19h 5m
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What is inevitable? Emmeline DeLeoste has always talked to the stars. As a member of a fortune-telling warrior clan, her exceptional magic allows her to read the Fates, earning her a prestigious Academy job. But it has also cost her everyone she loves. Roremar Silventa has more responsibilities than any man should. Com...

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“Misfortune and Promise are bound as one, sealed in blood, fire, and stardust,” the Fate whispered to herself, her nails scraping across the stone walls of her mind. “Much as Prophecy and Demise dance along a spectrum. Isn’t it a beautiful thing how two can be spun to reflect one another?”

She hummed as she wove circles around her cage, bare feet cool in the moonlight glimmering through the singular broken panel in the stained-glass dome high above.

The shards had long since sliced her skin, their memories turned to dust. Nothing but ashy remnants stuck to the hardened soles of her feet, taunting her.

“We are all born along that spectrum, though. Every fortune bows to it. How complex feeble minds become when they believe themselves in control of the bonds tying their futures.” Her melody continued, curling around the stone.