A debut fantasy romance filled with hope after heartbreak, secrets and techniques, and betrayal, as a dancer-turned-spy have to decide how far she can go to at ease her freedom
My protector is long past, discovered to be a monster. But I remind myself that I am now not a damsel. I’m no princess certain within a tower.
I am a shadow.
Vasalie Moran become as soon as a dancer in King Illian’s court docket, till he framed her for murder. Barely surviving her two years within the dungeons, she’s unexpectedly known as to face her king. He gives her a deal: turn out to be his spy at the six-week royal Gathering and he’ll furnish her freedom.
As Illian’s orders develop bloody and dangerous, forcing her to damage and betray the ones around her, Vasalie discovers that the monster she serves can be aligned with a larger monster—one a ways toward domestic. With her international threatened, Vasalie enlists the assist of Illian’s brother and best adversary, the notorious King of the East.
As the competition between brothers escalates, with Vasalie stuck in the middle, the scary truth of her beyond involves mild. If she desires to live on, she ought to decide who to consider, who to fight for, and what kind of of her soul she’s willing to rattling within the technique.