A spirited princess. A cursed king. A forbidden love that could ruin or save them both.My father sold me to the Shadow King.Faerie is a completely different world than the one I'm used to. Winged creatures fly in and out of mirrors, and fantastical gardens conceal treacherous illusions.Shadows draw me in a little more for each day my magic grows, but I can't afford to let my guard down.To survive, I must play by the king's r...

"You want to make your life easier? Then be the caged bird that you are and sing. "For ten years, I lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas's golden castle. One night changed everything.Now I'm here, a prisoner of Fourth Kingdom's army, and I'm not sure if I'm going to make it out of this in one piece. They're marching to battle, and I'm the bargaining chip that will either douse the fire or spark a war.At the heart of my fear, my worry, t...

The fae abandoned this world to us. And the ones with power rule.Gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Even me.King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I'm called his precious. His favored. I'm the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is. He gave me protection, and I...

"I don't choose him. Not anymore. I'm choosing me."King Midas made me the woman I am today. Notorious. Unattainable. His.The thing about being confined is that you believe it's to keep the bad out... Until you realize it's about keeping you in .I'm now in a strange kingdom surrounded by liars, with no allies of my own, but I won't sit idly by and let myself wither. No, something's bloomed from the pit of my repression. Something dark. Somet...

"I was nothing but a road to Midas. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold."My life has been made up of gilded lies. But death has been shaped from rot.Like a phoenix caught fire, I need to rise from the ashes and learn to wield my power. My wings may have been clipped, but I am not in a cage, and I'm finally free to fly from the frozen kingdoms I've been kept in.Yet the world doesn't want to let me.That's the...

She was once powerless. Now, she will decide the fate of a dying realm.Vellene Winloc fears the tyrannical blood in her veins. But her first kill has stripped her of innocence, and the more she wields her power, the less she resists its hunger. Every Winloc is destined to destroy, and she is no exception.Mogaell Winloc was never given a choice. The power of Death was forced upon her as a child, twisting her soul into something unrecognizable. Now, she fight...

One king caged my body. Another has caged my mind.War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that's not the only battle being waged. There's a fight inside me, and it's one I'm determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out.Yet they've forgotten one thing: the ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound. Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated m...

Her father stole the source of all magic. Now she will be beheaded…In a realm starved of magic, Vellene Winloc is next in line to inherit it, but her abusive, tyrannical father will never let her have it.Surrounded by the heads of her father's conquests, she must defy years of physical and emotional abuse if she ever wants to give the rage within her a voice.Out of his mind on drugs, Eledar Lirik is one of the last of the golem in the realm. After l...

"Find me in another life. Find me in them all."Every end is also a beginning.I thought I was going to die, and would have if it weren't for Slade. The only way he could save me was to open a rip between worlds. The only way for me to save myself was to go through it.Sometimes, fleeing one dangerous place just brings you to another.Annwyn. The realm of the fae. There is magic and beauty here, though, around every corner, threats lurk....

Become the hand of Fate. Cast the realm from darkness.A Guardian has staked his claim upon Mirror. Artos Null aims to take everything Zora has ever held dear, but mostly he wants what's inside her. The darkness. The void. The thing nuzzled against the back of her skull that pulses with power. It's a piece of him, and he wants it back, but Zora refuses to be his pet. She will never submit to his reign—even as Estal Kingdom burns, even as he chains her to a pit, even...

Lose the hand of Fate. Fall into an endless spiral of betrayal.Trapped in her brother's prison, Zora Vyner faces a challenge greater than the ruthless tournament she survived: heartbreak. Betrayed by Cristen and grieving the loss of her closest friend, she wonders if the price she paid for the truth was worth it.At least she got a crown from it.The truth is finally revealed by her brother. The Vyners were once a rival to Estal Kingdom, ruling the Un...