A mysterious prince. A reluctant rebel. She must pretend to love him or watch her people drown in their own blood.
Kascia is shattered when they ask her to join the Enthronement. She wants to stop the horrific suffering of her people, but is it worth the cost of her heart and soul? She's left broken and unsure of her existence when the men in her life, who should have loved her, pressure her to join the Enthronement – a contest to prove one girl a true princess and marry the crown prince – so she can let her father's rebels in to assassinate the royal family.
Her confidence is further shattered when the truths she once held dear are challenged upon entering the palace. The royal family is not what she’d expected them to be. They are not the greedy, demanding, cruel royals she expected of rulers imposing a crippling tax to this very day. If they aren’t who she thought, why is the crippling tax killing her people still in force?
Can Kascia let her father assassinate the royal family when they aren't what the people she believed? If the royal family isn’t encouraging the bloodshed, who is?
Kascia must find the answers in time. But can she before the time runs out? Or will the blood be on her hands when the war kills every last man, woman, and child left in Purerah?
A mysterious prince. A reluctant rebel. She must pretend to love him or watch her people drown in their own blood.
Kascia is shattered when they ask her to join the Enthronement. She wants to stop the horrific suffering of her people, but is it worth the cost of her heart and soul? She's left broken and unsure of her existence when the men in her life, who should have loved her, pressure her to join the Enthronement – a contest to prove one girl a true princess and marry the crown prince – so she can let her father's rebels in to assassinate the royal family.
Her confidence is further shattered when the truths she once held dear are challenged upon entering the palace. The royal family is not what she’d expected them to be. They are not the greedy, demanding, cruel royals she expected of rulers imposing a crippling tax to this very day. If they aren’t who she thought, why is the crippling tax killing her people still in force?
Can Kascia let her father assassinate the royal family when they aren't what the people she believed? If the royal family isn’t encouraging the bloodshed, who is?
Kascia must find the answers in time. But can she before the time runs out? Or will the blood be on her hands when the war kills every last man, woman, and child left in Purerah?