Bren was a careless nobles son, who had little interest in doing anything but playing with swords and winning hearts with his dazzling smile.
Vix was bred in her families not-so-reputable apothecary and the taverns of the dirty city, with nothing more on her mind than winning money in street brawls and brewing the perfect poison.
That was, until, The Cruel King attacked. Coming out of nowhere, with a force never before seen, The cruel king burned cities, stole money and land, and murdered with an almost gleeful fervor.
Now Bren in a pawn in The Cruel King's glittering cage of palace, and Vix is a slave in The Cruel King's farmland.
Under the rule of a tyrannical murderer, revolution is brewing, in the halls of a palace, and in the shadows of a slave yard. When two young people with the same idea meet, likely friends become unlikely foes, and two valiant rebellions turn on each other in a fierce competition of greed, morals, and power.
Two people brought together by what you wish to call it fate, destiny, magic or maybe even love.
Haden's wood grew up on her fathers farm in a small cranbed house where fun times were scarce. Her mother is sick has been since she was born with her and got worse when she had hadens little sister Lilly. Her farther blames haden for his wife's sickness and despises her little sister for from what he said was a mistake. Her father was Daley home leaving Haden Lilly and there older brother John to do all the work and help there mother. That was the life that they were given until the ball. Haadens aunt lilla sent a letter to there lone farmhouse asking for the children to come to here house for a little while so that they could all attend the ball, the coranation ball to be exact where the prince would find his bride and the next queen.
Jacob salvadora is the beloved prince of the kingdom of Iphaera. His whole life had always been planned out for him though he was never one to follow the rules. Once he turned 14 he learned all there was to be the king excluding the estranged marriage with the neighboring kingdoms princess, princess Ava a snotty stuck up girl who thought she ruled all of the world and that everyone else was peasants. She thirsted for power as did her father and mother. The prince not wanted to marry the princess. Convinced his parents to let him choose the girl he would marry. Finally giving into there son they arranged a cooranation ball where he would choose a rich girl with the eddicuuite of a true queen, but nothing could prepare the kingdom for what happens next.