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❝ nobody wins in war ❞
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ALLISE WATERS WAS born on the hottest day of the longest summer, where they say more sweat than blood was shed as Cersei Lannister, Queen and Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, gave birth to a tragedy in the den of the Red Keep. From the moment it was revealed the Lannister woman was pregnant, and that the father was not her husband, fate turned against her.
Growing up, Allise has been told exactly what she is, proctored and punished as the Queen's Bastard, raised to follow without question. Life in the Red Keep is not one of comfort, enduring the constant hardship that is her half-siblings, the sneers of her warrior uncle, and the respecting yet absent scowls of her grandfather. But if exclusion has taught Allise anything, it is how to blend in. Taking to her reading, Allise is the silent onlooker, keeping her words close and her thoughts even closer. To stay untouchable is the only way to live.
But what is best is not always what is desired.
Confiding in few, Allise watches and waits, for what she cannot be sure, but there is something in her, something burning where the rest has gone cold, a fragment inside Allise that longs to be the change, instead of only a witness to it. Peace hangs as precariously as a sword on string, and as fate winds tighter around the necks of the powerful, so does the noose Allise has been wearing her entire life.
