Rivienna has known nothing but life within the castle walls. She knows the ropes on the walls, the scent of lilacs, the footsteps of the guards—and the way a person screams just before the horses tear him to pieces.

For magic is forbidden in the kingdom. Anyone who whispers its name will die.

Riv never doubted it. Until one night, when an injured stranger showed up at her door and she made a decision that could cost her everything.

Alaric is dangerous, insolent, and full of secrets. He is the last man she should trust, and the only one who can tear her away from the world she thought she knew. Beyond the castle lies a truth more cruel than any fairy tale.

Because if Avalon is indeed the only one who knows why Rivienna was born blind, then her blindness was never a coincidence.

She was the price— paid on the night of her birth.

Some secrets cost you your life. Others cost even more.