She writes and distributes the newspaper for the rebellion. She's at the top of his most wanted list. His job is to track her down. In a twist on the classic Hans Christian Anderson story Cinderella, Prince Atlas attempts to hunt down the rebellion leader based solely on her locket as he falls deeper in love with the peasant girl turned writing tutor. Will Lynx be executed for treason, or will she get her happily ever after?

Seraphine (born 1475) lived seventeen years as a British peasant before her family made a bid for the New World. Her whole family perished on their ship, leaving her alone in a scary new land. Seeing no way of survival besides marriage, she prays a desperate plea to an ancient and scorned god, who decides to allow her escape in the form of immortality. As Seraphine progresses through time, from Period 1 (1491-1607) to Period 9 (1980- Present), she screws up the timeline over and over again, calling for the intervention of the God of Time over and over again to fix her messes. She's his greatest nuisance, and he is sworn to send her back to her old timeline if she messes up too badly for him to fix. Can love surpass ancient duty or the desire to survive, or is Seraphine doomed to go back to the life she'd rather ie than live.

Cassandra (Cass) Morrow has lived her life in pursuit of the truth ever since the mysterious disappearance of her younger sister, Hannah. After her disappearance, her dreams of getting out of Hollis Hollow are suddenly replaced by an obsession with finding closure, leaving her angry and lost when Hannah's body is found floating in a local cove, presumed to be an accident. When Cass and four of her classmates received a letter from Hannah that brings them to the site of another classmate's murder, the five unlikely allies trip onto a thread that could unravel a town's worth of secrets and tear a hole between the world of the dead and of the living.

After a brutal, uprising against the Gifted oppressors, the kingdom of Aeloria has been led by the Ungifted for centuries. Isolde, like the queens before her, has been entrusted with the extermination of any born with a gift, alongside maintaining the war on the border of Aeloria and Velora. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaeril is next in line to Velora's throne after the untimely death of his older sister at the hands of the Aelorian exterminator. However, the legitimacy of his reign depends on the Gifted Kingdom of Velora believing the carefully crafted lie of his parents and advisors, who believe the only way to reinforce his claim to the throne is to avenge his sister. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two regents who want nothing more than to kill the other, yet unlinkey circumstances and a lifetime of dark magic have thrown them together as they both fight for their lives, and each others.