First Lines Friday #677, May 3rd

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

"The king did not know then that his greatest love would also be his ruination—nor that either would come in the form of a tiny, helpless human child. She was a lone flutter of life in an endless expanse of decay, the only living mortal for a hundred miles. The child was perhaps four, perhaps eight—it was hard to tell, because she was so, so small, even by human standards. Just a frail little creature with slick black hair that curtained wide gray eyes."-The Serpent & the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

That doesn't sound good! Must read more now! What about you guys? Happy reading!