Onyx Cage, Volume 1 (The Lochlann Deception #5)

Chapter 1

I had spent a lifetime perfecting the art of planning ahead, of accounting for every known variable and even a few that were mere speculation. It was necessary, to live the life I had, to do the things I had done and still come out on the other side.

So by the time I arrived at the storms-forsaken Summit, I had made an artform of meticulously assessing each situation and weighing the best potential outcome, knowing that my clansmen lived and died on my ability to do it well.

In spite of that, I don’t believe there was anything in this world or the next that could have prepared me for her .