Amber's POV
"How does a nice horseback ride sound today?" Onel asked.
My ears perked up as I spun around from the books in the library.
"Today?" I asked.
"Of course, today. I've been itching to break a new horse that got shipped a couple of weeks ago. Fancy a ride?"
"That would be wonderful. Simoun?"
I looked over at the man with his leg crossed over his knee. He was lost within the pages of a book. Ripped into another world. Not even paying attention to the conversation floating around him. I'd ventured into the library earlier to get a better look at it. I had been so entranced by it the first time I saw it, but Simoun had quickly claimed it as his room to get away from me. To put distance between us. And I hadn't wanted to taint that. But the books called for me in a way they us
