A Court of Vipers (A War of Crowns #2)

Two Weeks Later

“The de la Croix fortress is both a testimony to Lothmeeran ingenuity and man’s penchant for paranoia.

I have heard it said that King Hamon the First originally built the Dawnspire not only as a stronghold, but also as a love letter to his wife, Queen Francesca.

But if this is cold, hard place was meant to be a love letter, then I tremble to think how fearsome the queen in question must have truly been. ”

-Master Edvin Howard, former Steward

of the Spire, writing to a friend