Auren goes to see Slade and they officially get together. She spends the night at camp and tells Slade everything. She says she’ll leave with him but only if they find Digby first. I've been a fan for a while but this book is in a league of its own. It was an emotional rollercoaster. Elizabeth Brown, author of Blood Crown Known for his brutality on the battlefield, his viciousness is unsurpassed. But I know the truth about what he is. So I will fight for him and he will kill for me, and if we need to become the villains, then so be it.

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Book 3 of this adult fantasy series continues in this epic story inspired by the myth of King Midas, fae, fated romance, and insurmountable greed. Like a phoenix caught fire, I will need to rise from the ashes and learn to wield my own power. Because my wings may have been clipped, but I am not in a cage, and I'm finally free to fly from the frozen kingdoms I've been kept in.

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Midas made me forbidden and weak. Little did he know that I would find my wings and voice - which sings now. King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I’m called his precious. His favored. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe. Auren accidently telling Judd and the others that she has intimate knowledge of where Rip/Slade has spikes on his body Midas takes a drugged Auren to the ball. She ruins his opening speech by not turning the bannister into gold. He’s angry. She has burned through the drugs.

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Can I really fall in love when the cities around me threaten to crumble and my fate hangs in the balance?Midas learns that queen Malina is rebelling against him. He also learns that someone is pregnant with his child. I was told that being confined was to keep the bad out . . . Until I realized it was about keeping me in. Read a full summary of Gleam by Raven Kennedy below. If you can’t remember what happened in Gild and you need a refresher, then you’re in the right place. What happened in Gleam? Auren learns that Midas is Bardon East, the thief lord she was trying to escape from years ago. He has worked his way up to king by deceiving everyone. Regret and revenge war inside of me, and I need to figure out a plan fast before I get tangled up in the schemes of kings and queens.

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I’m now in a strange kingdom surrounded by liars, with no allies of my own, but I won’t sit idly by and let myself wither. No, there’s something that’s bloomed from the pit of my repression. Something dark. Something angry. I was nothing but a road to Midas. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold."

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Love happens in all kinds of ways. Fast. Slow. In bits and pieces, or immediate. Filled with lust, one-sided longing, a snap realization never noticed before. Deeply. Thoroughly. Love is a whisper we didn’t hear or a sound that drums in our ears and drowns out everything else.” There comes a point in your life when you have to choose between having regrets and the possibility of making mistakes. I’d rather make those mistakes than live without ever taking a chance, because I’ve missed out on too much already. Taking chances can be like walking through a mudslide, where every inch of you gets stained, but regrets are the stagnant pools of deprivation, and I’ve been wading in them for far too long.” By bestselling author Raven Kennedy, comes the first book in a stunning new fantasy series, perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas and Jennifer L Armentrout. The world taught me that things could always be worse. I learned to always look up, to take what I could get, to settle. I became too blinded by my bright sides to see the truth. Sometimes, you look at the silver lining so much that you drift into denial about the clouds.” Does it really matter if your cage is solid gold when you aren't allowed to leave it? A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded.”

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Auren showers everything in gold. She melts the entire castle, which she has gilded over her time there. She traps Midas in the wall and kills him. RIP.

Suddenly, my trust is broken. My love is challenged. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong. Because these bars I’m kept in, no matter how gilded, are still just a cage. But the monsters on the other side might make me wish I’d never left.