A dying king.
His reluctant heir.
The dark prophecy that needs her dead.
Raine Blackwood used to dream of magic and adventure.
Until the day her sister Alana disappeared and the role of future queen fell to her.
She dreads the day her father dies and leaves the kingdom of Altria in her hands, but she's sworn to do anything for her people.
When her father makes a sudden announcement, however, and tells her she'll be marrying a prince she's never met, Raine wonders whether she ca.