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Chapters (76)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART I
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. FIVE
  11. SIX
  12. SEVEN
  13. EIGHT
  14. NINE
  15. PART II
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. PART III
  27. TWENTY
  28. TWENTY-ONE
  29. TWENTY-TWO
  30. TWENTY-THREE
  31. TWENTY-FOUR
  32. TWENTY-FIVE
  33. TWENTY-SIX
  34. INTERLUDE
  35. PART IV
  36. TWENTY-SEVEN
  37. TWENTY-EIGHT
  38. TWENTY-NINE
  39. THIRTY
  40. THIRTY-ONE
  41. THIRTY-TWO
  42. THIRTY-THREE
  43. THIRTY-FOUR
  44. INTERLUDE
  45. PART V
  46. THIRTY-FIVE
  47. THIRTY-SIX
  48. THIRTY-SEVEN
  49. THIRTY-EIGHT
  50. PART VI
  51. THIRTY-NINE
  52. FORTY
  53. FORTY-ONE
  54. FORTY-TWO
  55. FORTY-THREE
  56. FORTY-FOUR
  57. FORTY-FIVE
  58. INTERLUDE
  59. PART VII
  60. FORTY-SIX
  61. FORTY-SEVEN
  62. FORTY-EIGHT
  63. FORTY-NINE
  64. FIFTY
  65. FIFTY-ONE
  66. FIFTY-TWO
  67. PART VIII
  68. FIFTY-THREE
  69. FIFTY-FOUR
  70. FIFTY-FIVE
  71. FIFTY-SIX
  72. EPILOGUE
  73. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  74. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  75. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  76. Newsletter Sign-up

Robin. Arable. “Only if I had no other choice. And you have no—”

“Then I pity you.” She leaned back, fingers curled around the iron. “I, too, want peace. But I want peace for my friends, and for my lover. I would sacrifice anything for them, but not them. Without them, there’s no reason to fight at all. I wouldn’t expect you to understand.”

There was no point in talking to her anymore. She was ruled by her scorn. William could try with Will Scarlet, but he would have even less to bargain with. No, this strategy was a dead end, and he did not have the time to entertain it further. Catching the thieves was the surest method of solidifying his position, but there were other avenues at his disposal. Different enemies to corner, different allies to embrace.

He turned to leave, pausing only to offer one final threat, just for the empty fun of it. “If I catch your friends without your help, I will hang them all.”

She let go of the bars and dropped to the floor, crossing her legs. “I killed the Sheriff, alone. Will is an innocent man. Hang me, and let him go.”

“You give up your life for a dead man. Tell me, where is the great sacrifice in that?”

She smiled, cruelly. “We may still surprise you.”

FORTY-ONE

MARION FITZWALTER

THE OAK CAMP

“ANSWER ME THIS,” MARION asked Tuck, warming her fingertips at the nearly depleted tallow candle within his tent. “Do you hold that God is all-knowing?”

“He must be,” Tuck answered, “for He is God.”

“And do you hold that God is all-powerful?”

“Again, He must be. If He were not all-powerful, He would not be God.”

“And all-caring? Does He love us all, every one of us?”

“He does, despite our mistakes and our sins, for all of us can be redeemed.”

“I can’t believe you,” Marion sighed, wishing that the stories from her childhood could actually be true. “I could believe any two of the three, but not all of them. He may be all-powerful and all-caring, but perhaps He cannot see everything that happens. Or He may be all-caring and all-knowing, but lacks the power to intervene. Or if He is all-knowing and all-powerful, then He clearly doesn’t care. What happened to Much … how can you explain that? It wouldn’t happen if God knew about it, cared about it, and was able to stop it.”