You killed him tonight. He's alive, wearing the twin of your ring. At dawn, the Queen announces your engagement.
You are the Crown's knife. Tonight you killed Darius Vale. Now he is alive, wearing the twin of your ring. At dawn the Queen will announce your engagement.
Blackwater is an old kingdom with a watchful court. Queen Ysolde has ruled it for forty years. She keeps the peace with secrets, and she keeps one person for the secrets that can't be kept. That person is you.
You came to the palace at eleven. Captain Ilse Marr taught you to hold a knife. You have never failed an order. Your hands have never shaken.
Tonight you wake in a carriage. There is blood on your hands. A black ring sits on your finger and will not come off. A year of your life is gone.
The Queen's knife since you were eleven. You read a room the way other people read a letter.
Lord of House Vale. Charming, unbothered and very hard to kill. He wears the twin of your ring and carries a year of your memories.
Captain of the Queen's guard. She taught you to hold a knife and to watch the hand that lies.
Forty years on the throne. Small, warm and patient, and no one has ever seen her surprised.
Keep reading. This card opens when your story reaches them.
White stairs, grey soldiers, iron gates. Every corridor has a candle and every candle has a watcher.
A thin band of black metal. Yours won't come off. Darius wears the twin. What they do, you will have to find out.
Your old boots. The left one is heavier than it should be.
RomantasyHe is the prince of the kingdom you swore to hate. In forty-nine days the seventh trial needs one victor, or war returns.
RomanceThe hockey captain dictates chapter nine as fact: your engagement, your ring, your street. The publisher prints it in thirty days.
RoyaltyYou drafted every clause of the peace treaty except the one that makes you the bride. Signing is in twenty days.
ThrillerFour witnesses you relocated this year were found within a week, and only your files knew where. Your last one testifies in thirty days.