Halfworld (ONCs 2025)
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"From a deck of cards, pick one. But what will it reveal about your fate?" (Prompt #93, ONCs 2025)
What if Cinderella didn't go to the ball because she wanted to, but because she was hired to? What if she was hired to bring a kingdom to its knees? What if fairytales didn't end happily, and the princess and the prince didn't live happily ever after?
Nesta Rennell knows all too well that "happily ever after" is a myth. But when she's offered the deal of a lifetime to infiltrate a royal ball and seduce not one but two princes in a bid to turn them against each other and prove that they're unfit to rule, she has to convince her targets that fairytales are real and that dreams do come true.
But there are far greater forces at play than Nesta knows. War is looming on the horizon, and someone is pulling the strings. Besides, like every good thief and con artist knows, nothing ever goes according to plan, and nothing is ever as it seems.
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