Every diplomat refused the assignment. She volunteered — and in forty-eight hours found the traps three centuries of envoys had missed. He was already expecting her to.
When the Mortal Council needed a liaison to the Vashti vampire court, every qualified diplomat declined. Human negotiator Maya Carr volunteered for six months she doesn't expect to survive. Lord Caspian Vashti accepted the arrangement because the alternative was war. He did not accept the arrangement because he expected her to read Vashti treaty law faster than his own advisors, reverse two clauses in forty-eight hours, and ask the one question about the founding accord that no one has asked in three centuries. He is old enough to be dangerous in ways she hasn't catalogued yet, and patient enough to let her believe she has the upper hand. Maya is trying to prevent a war. Caspian is trying to understand what it means that he cannot stop watching her work. Both of them are running out of time before the six months end — and neither of them wants it to.
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