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Chapters (56)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CONTENTS
  5. MAP
  6. CHARACTERS MONARCHIES
  7. I don’t know…
  8. PART I Wizr
  9. CHAPTER ONE Chandleer Oasis
  10. CHAPTER TWO Lord of the Distant Isles
  11. CHAPTER THREE Zenana
  12. CHAPTER FOUR Elwis
  13. I think the…
  14. CHAPTER FIVE Disciple
  15. CHAPTER SIX Deep Fathoms Beckons
  16. CHAPTER SEVEN Dundrennan
  17. CHAPTER EIGHT The Ring Table
  18. My mind is…
  19. CHAPTER NINE Turandokht
  20. CHAPTER TEN Upon the Feast of St. Benedick
  21. CHAPTER ELEVEN Mortain Falls
  22. PART II Knights
  23. CHAPTER TWELVE Genevar
  24. I must get…
  25. CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Breaking
  26. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Defending Ploemeur
  27. CHAPTER FIFTEEN Wreckage
  28. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Revenge
  29. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Fault Staff
  30. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Greatest Power
  31. CHAPTER NINETEEN The Forbidden Court
  32. I’ve discovered my…
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY Zenana
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The High Tower
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Threat and Mate
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Midnight
  37. I made it…
  38. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Scattered
  39. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The King’s Defense
  40. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Trapping the Boar
  41. I joined the…
  42. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Dundrennan
  43. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Prisoner
  44. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Lost
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY Rage
  46. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Battle of the Kings
  47. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Vengeance
  48. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE The King’s Champion
  49. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Submission
  50. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE The Uncrowned King
  51. The war in…
  52. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Reunited
  53. EPILOGUE Into the Deep Fathoms
  54. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  55. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  56. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Greatest Power

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The Greatest Power

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There was a special kind of magic in a baby’s laughter, Trynne realized. She watched from the entryway to the nursery as the queen rubbed baby Kathryn’s feet together and then nuzzled them with her nose and lips until the little giggles erupted spontaneously again. The emotions Trynne felt surge inside her were so akin to the rushing feeling of Fountain magic that it filled her heart and added to her reservoir. She leaned her head against the doorjamb, soaking in the tender moment, watching the pure joy of a mother who loved her child. In that moment, Genny was like any mother in the kingdom. Her child just a child, not a princess. The simple beauty of it overshadowed the looming threat of Gahalatine’s invasion.

“How does it feel to be a mother?” Trynne asked softly from the doorway, enjoying the moment—hungering even for it to happen someday to her.

Genny was startled, but she didn’t stop showering her baby girl with kisses. “Trynne, it is the most wonderful thing in the world. And the most frightening. I haven’t decided which feeling is stronger.” She gently wagged the babe’s foot, giving it one more kiss. “I adore everything about her. Her eyelashes. The little nails that fit so perfectly. So tiny. And yet I fear for her. What sort of world will she inherit? Will it be Gahalatine’s? Or her father’s?” She sighed.

“She’ll inherit the world we leave her,” Trynne said. It made her feel fraught with purpose.

“And what kind of world will that be?” Genny said, not really posing it as a question. She reached out and ran her thumb down Kathryn’s little nose and the baby squirmed.