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From New York Times bestselling author Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton comes the first book in a ferocious YA fantasy duology featuring ancient magic warring factions and a romance between the two people in the world with the most cause to hate one another

Darling Seabreak cannot remember anything before the murder of her family at the hands of House Dragon but she knows she owes her life to both the power of her Chaos Boon and House Kraken for liberating her from the sewers where she spent her childhood So when her adoptive Kraken father is captured in battle Darling vows to save himeven if that means killing each and every last member of House Dragon

Talon Goldhoard has always been a dutiful War Prince for House Dragon bravely leading the elite troops of his brother the High Prince Regent But lately his brothers erratic rule threatens to undo a hundred years of House Dragons hard work and factions are turning to Talon to unseat him Talon resists until hes ambushed by a fierce girl who looks exactly like the one his brother has painted obsessively repeatedly for years and Talon knows shes the key to everything

Together Darling and Talon must navigate the treacherous waters of House politics caught up in the complicated game the High Prince Regent is playing against everyone The unlikeliest of allies theyll have to stop fighting each other long enough to learn to fight together in order to survive the fiery prophecies and ancient blood magic threatening to devastate their entire world