The plated prisoner series box set6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Rip has power sizzling beneath this skin and glinting spikes down his spine. The ones who nearly destroyed Orea, wiping out Seventh Kingdom in the process. Known for his brutality on the battlefield, his viciousness is unsurpassed. ![]() They’re marching to battle, and I’m the bargaining chip that will either douse the fire or spark a war.Īt the heart of my fear, my worry, there’s him-Commander Rip. Now I’m here, a prisoner of Fourth Kingdom’s army, and I’m not sure if I’m going to make it out of this in one piece. Synopsis: For ten years, I’ve lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas’s golden castle. “Men making deals on the behalf of women never seems to go very well for the women.” “I wish I could string up the sun and keep it tied in the sky, but wishes are for stars, and I hardly get to see any of those anyway.” It’s the arrogance of men, to think so little of women. But the monsters on the other side might make me wish I’d never left. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong.īecause these bars I’m kept in, no matter how gilded, are still just a cage. ![]() ![]() Until war comes to the kingdom and a deal is struck. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. Synopsis: The fae abandoned this world to us. ![]()
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