By Kimberly Derting
Hazard, dread, secret, and romance (Booklist) proceed within the moment e-book of The Pledge trilogy, as Charlies reign is below siege from the main strange of enemies.
At the luminous end of The Pledge, Charlaina defeated the tyrant Sabara and took her position as Queen of Ludania. yet Charlie is aware that Sabara has now not disappeared: The evil queens Essence is fused to Charlies psyche, able to come up on the first signal of weakness.
Charlie isn't vulnerable, yet shes being driven to the threshold. as well as suppressing the ubiquitous impression of Sabara, shes busy being queenand combating a starting to be resistance decided to come back Ludania to its discriminatory caste process. Charlie desires to be a similar woman Max loves, who Brook trusts, yet shes Your Majesty now, and she or he feels torn in two.
As Charlie trips to an annual summit to satisfy with leaders of close by Queendomsan occasion the place her skill to appreciate all languages could be the utmost assetshe is confronted with the last word betrayal. And the one individual she will flip to for assistance is the evil soul living inside.
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It would take at least twenty minutes for them to retrace their steps and another twenty to come down the subway tunnel. That should give the group a short time to recover before going up to street level to find God knew what kind of chaos. Before they faced it, they needed to rest and arm themselves. The power was out in the terminal too and emergency lights cast the area in a gloomy glow. Ari spotted a glass-fronted convenience store and headed toward it, sweeping his gaze from left to right.
Somehow he'd taken charge, but he had no business doing it. He was no leader. Lila and Deb picked up some of the scattered items from the floor to make space to sit, while Mrs. Scheider tried to make a call on her Blackberry. "Still not getting a signal," she announced. "Me either," Hector said. " Ann came from the cooler with arms full of bottled water and headed toward the checkout. Ari stopped her. "Uh, there's nobody to take your money. " "Oh, of course. " Her blue eyes were wide and dilated.
He listened hard, trying to hear beyond the stumbling feet and harsh breathing of the little group of travelers. The concrete tunnel echoed so it was difficult to tell what he heard, but he thought there were footsteps coming from behind them. The girl whimpered and gripped his shoulders, her little fingers digging in. She smelled like strawberry gum and sweat. Maybe he was supposed to give her some kind of encouragement or tell her not to worry, but he saved his breath for trotting faster. " The voice sounded like Ann, that woman who'd wanted to stay behind.