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321 pages, Hardcover
First published January 25, 2022
There is a saying among us who work there: Palace secrets must never get out, or else inevitably there will be blood.
“I wanted to love and be loved. I wanted to be known. I wanted to be understood and accepted.”
“We are women,” she continued, “and nothing short of death stops us from doing precisely what we wish to do. That is what the laws and restrictions binding our lives breed: determination and cunning. The likes of you will not obey me. You will tell me that you intend to be as still as a rock, and yet I know you will dart from shadow to shadow like a fish.”