A Blade for the Crown

Lyra has spent her entire life being trained to kill. After watching her parents die, she was taken by the Assassin Agency and turned into a weapon, taught to lie, fight, and hide every emotion behind a perfect mask. Now, years later, she is sent back to the kingdom she once called home, disguised as a noblewoman with one mission: infiltrate the royal palace, get close to her target, and finish the job. But everything changes when she meets Prince Cassian at a royal masquerade. He is nothing like the cruel and arrogant prince the Agency warned her about, and the more time they spend together, the more Lyra begins to question everything she has ever been taught. With secrets hiding behind every mask and danger closing in around them, Lyra must decide how far she is willing to go to complete her mission-and what she is willing to lose when the one person she was supposed to betray becomes the person she cannot bear to destroy.