DarcyMurphy2
For three years, Aly Peterson has lived a lie. While the princess of Telidore wastes away from a mysterious curse, Aly pretends to be her-navigating royal politics, unstable magic, and a fake betrothal to her own cousin, Benj of Secundae. All to protect her sister Emily, a werebunny and proud trainee in the Royal Guard.
Roald of Deld, the son of a powerful noble house and her oldest friend, is the only one who sees the girl beneath the crown. In secret, he courts her. In secret, he loves her. And in one breathtaking moment of sacrifice, he throws himself in front of a curse meant to kill her.
Wracked by guilt, Aly is left with no time to grieve as the kingdom teeters on the edge of civil war. Twisted by dark magic and bound to powers neither of them understand, Roald has become a threat to the very kingdom he once swore to protect. The king urges her to forget him, swearing he's lost forever.
Aly will break every oath she's sworn to save him.
But when a sip from the wrong goblet traps her in the fae court's deadly revelry-where mortals dance themselves to death-a mysterious traveler steps in.
A rival for the alliance she needs to find Roald, the two of them form an uneasy truce in search of something greater: the means to stop an uprising before it tears Telidore apart. Her new ally is a broody man with too many secrets and an irritating tendency to poke fun at her failings, but only with his help can she save the people she loves.
Yet some curses can't be broken.
Some loves can't be reclaimed.
And some futures can only be forged by letting go of the past.