


With clever homages to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, Hannah West makes a fast-paced, exciting, and wholly original debut.

There are princesses to protect, royal alliances to forge, and fierce monsters to battle-all with the hope of preserving peace. Together, Bristal and Brack must guard the three kingdoms of Nissera against Tamarice's black elicromancy. Tamarice is plotting a quest to overthrow the realm's nobility and take charge herself. Bristal joins their ranks without knowing that one of them has a dark secret. She's descended from an ancient line of immortal sorcerers called elicromancers-a race that has all but died out in her world, but only two remain in Nissera after a bloody civil war. Welcome to Nissera, land of three kingdoms and home to spectacular magic.īristal, a sixteen-year-old kitchen maid, finds herself in a gritty fairy tale gone wrong when she discovers she has magic in her blood.
