The Bridge Kingdom

But all those long nights, Lara had rested on the outskirts, offering nothing, using the time to watch her sisters. Lara and her half sisters had been brought to this secret place to undergo training that no Maridrinian girl had ever before received. Lara had thrown herself unarmed into battle, but this . . . this was what terrified her. She’d stayed with him at the barracks all through War Tides, but the narrow soldier’s cot had not been conducive to romance.