The Price of His Son

Summary

My father was the king of Sterling City, the man they called Mr. Cain, whose name was whispered in alleys and boardrooms with the same mixture of fear and reverence. But he was my mother’s creature.

He had only one good leg. The other, a state-of-the-art prosthetic, was a testament to his devotion—a piece of himself he’d sacrificed to a rival to save her life.

The night I was born, fireworks exploded over the city until dawn.

It was a welcome, they said, for the city’s new princess.