Darcy Decaux is a very proud person, which is why she hasn't asked for someone to save her from her abusive, gambling older brother. After all, she is all he has left, she can't abandon him... yet. At least not until college. She doesn't want the hassle. She wants to make her final year of high school as easy as possible. Except the cute gallery owner, Eric, has just become her new art teacher. He knows all about how Brogan treats her and he doesn't like it. Eric wants to protect her, Brogan wants her to blackmail her teacher, and Darcy wants to experience real love. But who will she choose to deceive - her bully of a brother, or the sweet art teacher who can't seem to keep his hands off her?

The peace of the Bellioana Kingdom is broken apart when The Stone Queen, a woman made of living rock, arrives and threatens to take everything from the royal family. Ava Belliona, the second born daughter of the Bellioana family and the only survivor of The Stone Queen's invasion, has vowed to revenge her family and regain her right to her Kingdom. She must stop The Stone Queen or else she, and the rest of her kingdom, face utter destruction. She is left only with the Captain of the Royal Belliona Guardsmen, and her citizens who are willing to fight with her. Ava must discover what it means not only to become queen of her kingdom, but just how dangerous her powers, the fae, and uncontrolled creatures around her are.