"How long will you keep fighting, Anastasia Velt? It's already been a hundred lifetimes..."
Even the god of time was shaken by the unwavering resolve of the forgotten princess.
"I'll keep fighting," she replied, eyes steeled with determination. "He's my father. It's my duty to save him-and to make him remember me."
Anastasia prepared herself for yet another cycle, expecting to awaken at the familiar age of fifteen, the age she'd returned to countless times before. But as her eyes fluttered open, she was met with an unfamiliar scene. This time, she was only a child, much younger than she'd ever been in any past timeline.
A new opportunity-and a new mystery-lay before her. Even with the unexpected shift, Anastasia resolved to break her father, Duke Lucius, free from the curse that bound him. Would this new beginning finally grant her the chance to succeed where she'd failed before?
When vengeance strikes in the form of a bullet out for the princess's blood, Princess Aleia VonAuclair must flee the heart of her country in order to protect the people she loves and take back the pieces of her soul she'd lost to the girl she once loved like a sister - the same girl who'd turned out to be the one hidden beneath the assassin's mask all along.
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Princess Aleia VonAuclair's twenty-first birthday was set to mark the beginning of a new era; a celebration of a country and their princess reborn after a deathly battle that put an entire nation neck-to-neck with Asrea's infamous serial killer.
While Aleia struggles to twine the identities of the girl she'd once played dress up with to the girl history writes down as the heartless slayer of innocents, the rest of the world will forever remember her only as her legacy: Asrea's renowned Harbinger of Death.
But when terrors of a sharpshooter and his lethal bullet striking for vengeance erupts the nation into utter chaos, the princess is forced to flee thousands of miles away from her home and the people she holds dear to her heart.
Hidden between the shadows of a new city, Aleia is ordered keep her head down and her heart locked tight until they capture the man set out for the princess's blood.
No distractions, no attachments, and absolutely no mistakes.
If only it were that simple. If only if it weren't for the man whose cold, green eyes seem to pierce straight through her soul and into the buried depths of the secrets tearing her life apart by the seams.
The man whose own shadows threaten to unveil hers.
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Completed on 9/3/2024
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