


"Only a 40 per cent chance of showers," she boomed in that ebullient, jolly-hockey-sticks style that suits these great national occasions so well. Not long after 8am, BBC1 commentator Clare Balding was determinedly upbeat. Would it cast a pall over the big day or could our longest-serving Prince of Wales come up smiling as the sun king? In short, would Eeyore be transformed by his people's affection into Winnie the Pooh. The sky over Buckingham Palace changed from pale pigeon to a menacing pewter. You prayed that the awfully British weather had not dampened his spirits. The dear chap had waited 70 years for his Coronation. In the past, our former Prince of Wales was known to be prone to gloom, writes Allison Pearson. At least, please don't rain on my reign, or so Charles III must have thought this morning. And as shocking secrets and the harshest betrayals come to light, and enemies emerge to threaten everything Poppy and Casteel have fought for, they will discover just how far they are willing to go for their people-and each other.Don't reign on my parade. Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible-travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy’s head.īut the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. But as the kingdoms’ dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of.

She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers.

Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. Armentrout comes book three in her Blood and Ash series. Bow Before Your Queen Or Bleed Before Her…įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L.
