downfall

Princess Quinn Alexandra Forest already has things difficult. Forced by most of her family to hide behind long gloves, sleeves, and a veil and hood for her very tanned skin, and then often isolated for it when she can't control genetics. Her siblings only slightly mistreat her, but still manage to make her feel alone.

Then her brother rises to power, and she sees the fear stirring among the advisors of her recently deceased father. The youngest advisor's seventeen year old son ushers Quinn out of the palace, hoping to shelter her from her brother's surely destructive and ruinous rule.