THE CRIMSON COURT

For two hundred years, the Seven Kingdoms were at war.

When the Blood Kingdom finally claimed victory, peace came with a cruel condition: every citizen who reached nineteen must spend a year serving in the Blood Kingdom.

Most survived.

Some never returned.

Powerless and unwanted, Isolde Riven never expected to survive the Year of Service.

Branded a cursed child since birth, blamed for her mother's death, and abandoned by everyone except her grandfather, Isolde enters the Blood Kingdom with little hope and even lesser strength. Unlike everyone around her, she cannot wield magic. Her fragile body depends on rare herbs, and every day away from home brings her closer to death.

Then she catches the attention of the one man she should have avoided.

Lucien Varek.

The immortal Blood King.

The monster kings fear.

In a court where loyalty is bought with blood and love is the deadliest weakness of all, Isolde must decide whether to run from her fate-or embrace the destiny waiting for her at the Crimson Court.