OctaviaLocke
Two loves. One betrayal. A dozen lives - and she'll spend every one if she must to save them all.
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To gain the power of a goddess, claim the Ashen throne, and prove her worth, Princess Kisa Aggre must first drown.
When the ritual fails and the goddess never comes, Kisa is declared a disappointment. Stripped of her future and any claim to power, she is offered to the desert Empire of Fend-a sacrifice meant to secure an uneasy alliance between two long-standing enemies.
On the eve of her departure, Kisa's beloved cousin, Keldra, returns after months away. But their reunion is short-lived. Within hours, Keldra bleeds out in Kisa's arms, leaving behind a cryptic message-Sestra, do what I could not-and a bloodstained scrap of leather Kisa recognizes as Fend.
Now Kisa must leave the only home she's ever known with the very people she suspects may be responsible for Keldra's death.
In Fend, she finds herself bound to Rath, the ruthless, unrecognized son of the emperor, and drawn into the orbit of his charming and dangerous brother, Davros. But something impossible is awakening in Kisa: a magic unheard of, a power that answers to blood. As she searches for the truth behind Keldra's death, enemies both foreign and familiar begin moving in the dark-and the mystery reaches far beyond a single murder.
Before Kisa can expose the conspiracy, she, Rath, and Davros are killed.
Drowned.
In death, Kisa finally meets the goddess who abandoned her-and is given the chance to begin again.
This time, Kisa intends to save them all.
Even if she must tear an empire apart to do it.
𝐖𝐈𝐏 | 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐝 | 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲