He leaned in so close I could feel his breath against my skin, could see every detail of his face, the intensity behind his eyes, the faint scar above his brow. My heart pounded as he closed the last of the distance between us. "You have a choice," he said, his voice cold as steel. "Do as I say and survive. Or don't." **** Lorien Robinson was abandoned on a doorstep the night her kingdom burned. She doesn't remember any of it. For seventeen years, she's been an ordinary girl with an ordinary life, raised by parents who loved her without question and asked for nothing in return. That ends the night a stranger calls her princess. Dragged into a truth she never asked for, Lorien learns she is the last heir of Eldrid, a kingdom reduced to ash by a man who has hunted her since the day she was born, and the only living piece of a prophecy that names her his end. Caught between the danger closing in and a boy who seems to know exactly who she is before she does, Lorien's wary suspicion shifts into something far more dangerous, even as every secret he keeps puts her further in his debt. But Eldrid's enemy has not forgotten the prophecy. And he is done waiting. Lorien must decide how far she'll go to survive the truth of who she is, before the past she never knew catches up to the future she hasn't chosen yet.