Platsy, the maid, had once referred to it with a shudder as the “Passageway of Lost Babes,” and Nana had scolded her sharply. The passage wasn’t a secret, but because after nursery years it stood dark, cold, and airless, everyone generally avoided it. Her mother had told her it was built so that mothers and fathers could check on their daughters in the middle of the night without walking in the public hall undressed. Cerúlia snapped alert.Ī short interior corridor connected the queen’s chamber and the princella’s. Her house cats had arched their bodies and their tails twitched. Pakki, who was so old that he didn’t even react to his name, was the only dog not on alert. Coming closer.Ĭerúlia twitched the bed hangings open. Can I talk to the other dogs too? What about the cats? Danger, he sent.Īki! You can hear me? Cerúlia delighted in her new connection with a dog.

She “opened” the window, and Aki spoke to her for the first time. Cerúlia felt a pressure on her mind, something akin to wings beating against a closed window. She rolled over, but then Aki pawed her back with his nails. Please enjoy the following excerpt! ExcerptĬerúlia’s biggest dog, Aki, prodded her with his cold nose, which he had wiggled under the bed curtains.

Raised in obscurity, she has no resources, no army, nothing that can help her against her enemies.Ī Queen in Hiding by Sarah Kozloff will be available on January 21. Her enemies failed to kill her, and no one harboring her is safe. Exiled and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, knows she has one destiny.

A Queen in Hiding by Sarah Kozloff