Cinder Vale (Sins of the Zodiac #3) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

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The wild is calling.

War is raging. Our leaders are lying. And treason has started slipping into my dreams far too easily.

Secrets whisper through the wind, threading themselves through this land, and the destiny I once longed for is beginning to sour now that it’s finally mine.

I want to follow the path laid out for me, but every step twists my gut with doubt. My heart beats a traitor’s rhythm.

There is a secret buried at the heart of our lands. I don’t know who’s guarding it or what will happen when it’s revealed, but I can feel myself wanting—needing—to drag it into the light.

I’m torn between the life I always claimed to want and the truth calling out for me to uncover it. If I let these doubts take root, I may become a traitor to everything I’ve ever been.

Not that my heart minds treachery. It races for a man I should hate, thunders at the promise of his touch, pounds at the thought of his kiss.

I shouldn’t ache for him the way I do. I shouldn’t crave the things I imagine in the dead of night. But my eyes find him in every room, my thoughts linger on him when we’re apart, and my soul burns for him with every waking breath.

He can’t be mine. I won’t be his. But perhaps fate has other plans for us…

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