A crown isn't won. It's survived.
The monster finally has a face—and it's one they already know.
There's no unknowing it now, and no time to break beneath it, because the well still holds two queens in the dark and the warlock who dug it is done waiting.
Everything they've bled for comes down to this. A realm marches in the open for the first time in twenty years. An age of ancient fire stirs beneath the roots, waiting for someone with the right to call it rather than command it. And in front of the whole world, Saban faces the choice the dark built his entire life to force—between the gift that heals and the vengeance that would hand the dark everything it's ever wanted.
To break the well, free her mother, and take the crown a realm has grieved for two decades, Sara will have to decide what she's willing to give up—and what kind of queen is worth becoming.
The dark spent twenty years teaching a world to be afraid. Now the hidden are stepping into daylight, the stolen are rising, and the girl who fell out of a Montana sky is about to teach a warlock the last thing he expected to learn: darkness can be made afraid, too.
