Crown Breaker
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The Tainted are hunted.
The Rift, a deadly ring of smoke that has enclosed the island of Ardon for the past three centuries, prevents Farren from returning to a home she's never known. Already an outcast by blood, it doesn't help that she has a power she barely has a grasp on and Riven-her only Tainted companion-wants nothing to do with her. So when a prince claiming to be from Ardon approaches them with a task and promise, she doesn't care what she has to sacrifice to find her place in the world.
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