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Seventeen-year-old Lilliana Evervale has always noticed what others miss: patterns in speech, cracks in behavior, and the quiet lies holding society together. She never meant for her wit to make her future so dangerous.
But, when a letter from the Society arrives at her door, Lily has no choice but to leave her life behind and be taken to Virelia: a candlelit city where time bends, forests move, and survival is entertainment.
There, she is forced into The Choosing Hour: a twisted game where the most perceptive, intelligent, and uncontrollable young-adults are made to compete in trials of logic, fear, deception, and sacrifice as a way to be silenced and shunned from the predictable followers of the world. Victory is promised, freedom is implied, yet neither is guaranteed.
Now stuck in a game that's never been won, Lily must choose a partner, or be destroyed alone.
Eighteen-year-old Matteo Romero is a silent, yet feared man built like a weapon. Everyone else avoids him, all but Lily Evervale, the girl whose silence is a promise for war.
Pain is a common thing to him, yet the result of it must not be seen. Not when you're placed in a game broadcasted to the world, and especially not when you're from a high-respected family of members of the Society.
As trials turn brutal and the city watches the corrupted illusion meant to control, Lily and Matteo are forced to discover the truth of the cruel event, and learn that love may be the most dangerous defiance of all.
In a world that survives on fear, what happens when two people refuse to play their parts?
If you love books such as Caraval, Harry Potter, Maze Runner, The Inheritance Games, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Alice in Wonderland, Percy Jackson, and The Hunger Games, then this book is for you!
All my original work. Though the cover is AI because I'm bad at art so if someone wants to volunteer to be my artist lmk!