title: The Exile
author: Mrs Marsha A Temlock
description: Marsha Temlock teaches English and creative writing at Norwalk Community College. Publications include poetry, feature articles, short stories and nonfiction book Your Child's Divorce:What to Expect ... What You Can Do (Harbinger Press) that was profiled on <i>The Today Show</i>, <i>NYTimes</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal</i> and dozens of magazines, e-zines and newspapers. The author is available for speaking engagements to talk about her amazing literary journey that produced "The Exile", vetted by native Ghanaian readers who wanted to know "When were you in Ghana?"
zlib_text: Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
  
  Gods, it was boiling in this useless excuse for a kingdom.
  
  Or maybe it felt that way because Celaena Sardothien had been lounging on the
  lip of the terra-cotta roof since midmorning, an arm flung over her eyes,
  slowly baking in the sun like the loaves of flatbread the city’s poorest
  citizens left on their windowsills because they couldn’t afford brick ovens.
  
  And gods, she was sick of flatbread—teggya, they called it. Sick of the
  crunchy, oniony taste of it that even mouthfuls of water couldn’t wash away.
  If she never ate another bite of teggya again, it would be too soon.
  
  Mostly because it was all she’d been able to afford when she landed in Wendlyn
  two weeks ago and made her way to the capital city, Varese, just as she’d been
  ordered by his Grand Imperial Majesty and Master of the Earth, the King of
  Adarlan.
  
  She’d resorted to swiping teggya and wine off vendors’ carts since her money
  ran out, not long after she’d taken one look at the heavily fortifi