Discover Thorne's explosive first meeting with Aster at the Tithe and their first night in the Cursed Court...

This exclusive bonus scene is written from Thorne's point of view.

Aster.

That was her name. 

He wanted to repeat the word, taste the sound of it on his tongue. He wanted to growl it and see how she’d react.

She turned to face him, tilting her chin to meet his gaze.

He could taste the fear in the air from the line of girls, bitter as winter berries, but not the girl in front of him. Thorne could hear her heart rattling in her chest, but if she was scared, she hid the scent of her fear deep down. 

If anything, she smelled faintly of iron and salt and blood.