Overview

With its fast paced narration style and Brine’s blood-thirsty need for revenge, this book will entice readers of Curse of Shadows and Thorns by LJ Andrews and Scarred by Emily Mclintire,. It is perfect for those that want to see a strong female take back her power from a patriarchal society and find her own path.

After all, who doesn’t love a little femme fatale with revenge, dripping with blood, love and political strife?

Since her mother abandoned her to live with her power-hungry and neglectful father, Lady Brine of House Alaris has only ever lived by two rules: seduce and destroy. Her father, in his ambition, will do anything to gain more land and titles– even if it means selling his daughters’ body to the nobles, and the ones that don’t fall for pretty words and bare skin are forced to sign away their lands and lives’ away with Brine’s magic.

As she arrives at the castle of Alynthia, she is faced with the difficult journey of coming to terms with her own darkness and how she took pleasure in controlling the same men that would abuse her, and finding her place in this world– next to the delicious Crown Prince Calix, who seems to be handsome distraction to her mission; killing the King before he kills her.

Brine has entered a deadly game with high stakes; she needs to somehow convince Prince Calix to have her father and brother murdered without the Royal Family learning her true identity– the last of her kind, long since exterminated by the Kings' of the kingdom's past, and discover why her kind was eradicated and use her newfound power to destroy her chains.

Will she survive? Or will she succumb to her fury and be lost forever?