“Chaos will be unleashed in all of Arden unless the duke find love with she who shines as pure as gold.”

Fallon Soulliere is trapped working off a debt that is not her own; bound to serve Lady Delmesca, the disgraced viscountess who is determined to find the girl the Duke of Arden is prophesied to marry—at any cost. With only six months left in her contract as a housekeeper, Fallon can nearly taste her freedom, longing for adventures with the mysterious boy from the bookshop but is instead dragged away to Stonegrove Manor to help Lady Delmesca present her collection of girls befitting the prophecy.

But the boy she left behind isn't who she thought he was, and Fallon’s worlds unexpectedly collide when Lord Huxley—the soon-to-be duke—is announced, and an all-too-familiar face emerges through the doors. Fallon is left reeling, trying to decipher which parts of the boy she thought she knew are real, while slowly realizing that Lord Huxley might not be the callous monster the rumors have painted him to be. With unruly magic creeping closer and Lord Huxley duty-bound to a prophecy Fallon doesn’t fit, she must learn to shield her heart before their world is sent into chaos.

The kingdom owns them. 

The rebels want them.

They just want their freedom, once and for all.

Seventeen-year-old Phoenix is fighting in a war she wants no part of. Not on the battlefield, but stuck on the sidelines forced to do nothing but watch the horrors in front of her as part of the elite group of Angels—pretty faces bought by the kingdom and sold by their families, their sole purpose to lure young men into a waging war. Longing for her freedom from the kingdom’s ruthless clutches, Phoenix must place her trust in two of the new Guardians assigned to protect her and her fellow Angels—even though one of them is harboring a secret that could cost Phoenix her life.

In a world of dangerous secrets and hidden desires, Phoenix desperately fights her own demons, seeking answers and freedom—a deadly combination—to uncover the mysteries of her fracturing world.