Ever since the Kryser Trials, the Royal Picking has been a waited for event. Every ten years, thirty girls and thirty boys , ages sixteen through twenty, are randomly chosen from the villages to win a chance to be Queen and King of Akontis. The reign of the past Queen and King is up and the Tenth Royal Picking has begun. In the Stifles, Xiernia, an eighteen year old girl, finds herself trying to decide if she wants to be Queen or not, though it isn't even up to her. It isn't up to anyone. Do you want to be Queen?

There stands a dark abundant forest..Whispers and cracking branches fill the air continually.Shadows move along it's borders. Deep in the forest stands a menacing building.Four stories high covered in foliage.Life fled long ago under the torture served daily.Screams and banging doors can be heard when night befalls the earth. At the edge of the forest stands two abandoned mansions.One hides dark disturbing secrets while the other shall house innocence, evil will clash with good, and like many times before, the innocence will be lost to the whispers in the forests. This novel is a collaboration... @LaDeeF_ckingDa created the amazing cover!She will also be the voice of May.. @pepperpie27 shall be the voice of Jackson. Mwhahahahahaha ~(*+﹏+*)~