Cinder & Glass

2022·2.23 MB·english

by  Melissa de la Cruz

Also by
Melissa de la Cruz
THE QUEEN’S ASSASSIN DUOLOGY
The Queen’s Assassin
The Queen’s Secret
THE ALEX & ELIZA TRILOGY
Book One: Alex & Eliza
Book Two: Love & War
Book Three: All for One
HEART OF DREAD SERIES
(with Michael Johnston)
Book One: Frozen
Book Two: Stolen
Book Three: Golden
WITCHES OF EAST END SERIES
BLUE BLOODS SERIES
BEACH LANE SERIES
THE ASHLEY PROJECT SERIES
DISNEY DESCENDANTS SERIES
The Ring and the Crown
Something in Between
Someone to Love
29 Dates
Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages
(edited by Melissa de la Cruz)
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
Jo & Laurie and A Secret Princess
(with Margaret Stohl)
Surviving High School (with Lele Pons)

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Copyright © 2022 by Melissa de la Cruz
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Contents
Cover
Also by Melissa de La Cruz
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Light
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Cinder
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Glass
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Magic
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Crown
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
For Mike & Mattie, always,
and
for all the princesses in my life:
Marie de la Cruz
Sophia Evans
Dagny Hartman
Christina Hossain
Caitlin and Whitney Jones
Lois and Bonnie Robinson
I wish you all the most magical happily ever afters
Versailles, 1682
I believe that the histories that will be written about this court after we are all gone
will be better and more entertaining than any novel,
and I am afraid that those who come after us
will not be able to believe them and will think that they are just fairy tales.
—Lady Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d’Orléans, sister-in-law to Louis XIV, King of France
Light
O happy childhood! Blessed youth!
But once we know thy potent power;
But once we live all careless free;
No cross to mar our love-lit bower.
—Pablo Neruda