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She was never meant to be found.
For a thousand years, the Line has divided the world. Humans live on one side. On the other live the Lunars, gifted with magic by the moon itself and feared ever since one of them nearly burned the world to ash.
Nineteen-year-old Aysel has spent her whole life on the human side. She's a smith's daughter with too much hair and far too much mouth, and she breaks one rule too many when she sneaks to the border to watch the Lunar army rise at dawn.
Then its youngest general catches her, and he can't read her mind.
No human has ever kept a Lunar out of their head. And Aysel bears none of the marks that name a Lunar's bloodline, power, or rank. She's dragged before a Council that wants her gone. Then an empty seat at their table speaks, and his word is law. Aysel is sent to an academy of the most dangerous magic-wielders alive, where she discovers a power no one has seen in centuries, one that can echo every gift the moon has ever given.
But the war between the two Lunar bloodlines is closing in. When a battle costs Aysel the friend she loved most, she wakes up stranded in enemy territory, where she's captured by Lucian. He's the ruthless heir of a court ruled by an immortal king who makes his successors kill each other for a throne that will never be empty.
Lucian wants that king dead. So does Aysel. To get close enough to strike, she'll have to play his fiancée and walk into the heart of the court that killed her friend.
But the lie is becoming harder to tell apart from the truth. And the deeper Aysel digs, the more she realises the history she's been taught was buried on purpose, and so was she.
Fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Fourth Wing will be swept into a world of forbidden magic, fake engagements, and a love that could burn both kingdoms down.