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. Auren accidently telling Judd and the others that she has intimate knowledge of where Rip/Slade has spikes on his body

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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.” 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. After living amongst the terrifying army of Fourth Kingdom, I find myself, once again, in strange lands and a kingdom surrounded by liars. One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand.” Midas holds a dinner for Queen Kaila from third Kingdom and her brother and his husband. Also Ravinger. Auren humiliates Midas and doesn’t obey him so he gets angry and makes Ravinger’s Commander carry Auren to the harp to play all night.Prince Niven is poisoned and dies. People blame King Ravinger because he tends to kill things with his powers. Auren goes to protect Slade. She calls Midas out for being a faker. 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.

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Slade bumps into Midas outside. Midas says he wants Ravinger’s Commander to leave Fifth Kingdom and his people will leave a little village called Drollard. This is to get the Commander away from Auren.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.”

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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. Can I really fall in love when the cities around me threaten to crumble and my fate hangs in the balance?

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? 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. Add it: Goodreads Goodreads Summary: King Midas made me the woman I am today. Notorious. Unattainable. His. He’s sinister and powerful and entirely too seductive. I’ve learned my lesson with trusting manipulative kings, so why does my chest constrict every time he’s near? I need to tread carefully, or I’m at risk of losing much more than just my freedom. 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.

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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. Auren goes to see Rissa and Mist. Mist says Midas will officially recognise her baby as his, so it’ll be king or queen when it grows up.The third novel in Tik Tok Fantasy Phenomenon - The Plated Prisoner Series. Auren must plans her revenge against one king while trying to resist falling for another . . .