The amount of things you never think about really adds up when you are in a place of no return. And for Lyrin, one fateful night changed everything.
Welcome to Kress, a land filled with prosperity, trouble, magic, and the ones who wield all--Isols. These ability-users are infrequent, many times detested because of their strict advantages in their harsh world, and such is true for 16-year-old Lyrin Solental, a Duchess' daughter who believes the best way to avoid the discrimination is to hide from it all. But after an attempt for her life, she realizes one thing--she won't ever be safe, no matter how much she tries to hide.
Alone, she ventures into the world she'd never explored, finding injustice where she should have seen beauty and corruption where there should have been peace. The people she once helped rule over are suffering, and so is the ground they walk upon. But one single person can't change an entire country, can they?
A story filled with adventure, suspense, hatred, and love. When evil comes, who will be the ones to stand up and fight?
Amantha is not ready to be anything other than a wild, tomboy princess, but when tragedy strikes this unlikely royal is called upon to rule a kingdom. Scared to grow up, she runs away from responsibility and finds a new world in an adventure to find out who she really is inside. While Amantha is no princess in distress, she has much to learn about the world of magic and mystery and along with the help of a beautiful boy with a secret past, she uncovers the fairy tale world that lives right outside of her kingdom.
"When I was little, I didn't believe that there was magic. I had been taught that no elves, witches, leprechauns, unicorns, harpies, trolls or dragons had ever existed. No one could turn into anything else and everything happened for a reason. Now that I'm older, I realize that even if a tutor told me those things, you can't believe everything people say. I happen to know that magic exists because I have seen it with my own eyes. If you believe that dreams come true, they will. And fairy tales aren't only in story books."