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?

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 unlikely circumstances and a lifetime of dark magic have thrown them together as they both fight for their own lives, and each other's.