Into the Water
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Felicia is a quiet, studious girl who happens to be a great beauty renowned for her seclusion. Too bad the portraits her father paints brush away the flaws on her true face.
Through her adolescence in the court of Merkh, Felicia has only concentrated on her schooling. As she gets older, her father wants to push boundaries in his work, and the portraits only get more risque. This makes it even harder to fit into the background, already hard enough with a hormonal prince as one of her only friends, putting tension between her and her fianc This drama all changes in the summer before her eighteenth birthday when her country is invaded by a vicious army, led by a young and unhinged general that is somehow familiar. Her structured life falls apart as her father can't find any business and her fiancbrings home a vulgar little street rat of a sorcerer he befriends who is determined to drive them apart for his attention. Her father's legacy becomes clear when a foreign prince demands her hand to keep the peace. His obsession with her portrait may be her undoing, for the face in the painting is not really hers.
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