This heartbreaking, sarcastically funny and bad-ass novel is about sixteen year old Shadow Alister and Colton Foster. Shadow isn't the average teenager. She's apart of the Assassin's League, the leader of it actually. Now she's out for revenge. At the age of six everything was taken from her. Her normal life, her best friend but the thing that damaged her the most was her three year old sister, Allison. It was all because of him. The man who was supposed to protect his people. The man who killed millions of his people to make it to the top. The King. Now Shadow has to avenge her little sister. Kill the man who took everything from her. She thinks she will kill everyone in her way, including her parents, but what happens when she meets Colton. The one boy who doesn't look at her and cower. The one person who stands between her and her mission. Colton is the Prince. Son of a cruel hearted King. Son of the King, Shadow is destined to kill. He's tried his entire life to live off his father's horrid legacy. He wants to help his people and no one will give him the time. One day he goes to the town of Ardensvale where he meets the one person who he might actually not be able to help. She intrigues him because she doesn't need him. She's the one person who doesn't ask for help, but gives it. The entire country is the opposite of this one girl. Why is she so different? What is she made of? How can I not love her? Questions that all run through Colton's head for the next seven months he spends trying to find her. What will Colton do to make her feel the same about him and how will Shadow find out she loves him too? But will she ever? Will Shadow use Colton to kill the King? Will Colton find out her secret revealing Shadow's bloodstained hands?
19 parts