In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight, but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom, to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive, unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—even as she finds herself falling in love. The Kiss of Deception is the first book in Mary E. Pearson's Remnant Chronicles.

Katrina is caught on the run when she finds herself back from the dead after a terrible traffic accident. She discovers that she is an Undying; someone who's body regenerates to full health after death. Throughout the chase she is joined by Jake, another undying and an old childhood friend. Along with several other unlikely allies, they continue the search for a haven, a place to hide away from whatever or whoever is hunting them.