The Bird and the Sword By: Amy Harmon Published: May 10, 2016 352 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.   The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky.  My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free.  But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t ...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  The Bird and the Sword with Amy Harmon: Teasers: I didn't want to be taken care of. I wanted to run away from all the men who sought dominion over me, who thought they could own me, imprison me, use me, cut me. (Loc 29%, 1192 of 4260) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!