The Hidden Queen
Chapter One
"One. Already -- and he was Anghara's."
Rima, Red Dynan's widowed queen, paced her
chambers, lacing restless fingers in and out of one another in
palpable frustration.
"How, my lady?"
"Poison, they think. The healers who tended him say he died
in great pain. And now there are six in council. And I can be
sure of only two." She looked up, her eyes haunted. "How
long, March? How long before some poisoned sweet is handed
to Anghara? I cannot be with her constantly, I cannot protect
her all the time, not while I am trying to save her throne!"
March, the queen's man from long before her marriage,
stirred from where he stood staring into the leaping flames
on the great stone hearth. "It might not be too much longer,"
he said carefully. "There has been other news."
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