Two princesses. Bound by chains, torn by desire, doomed to be enemies.
Before the rebellion, before the betrayal—Cassia was a princess with something to prove.
One year before the events of Under the Endless Sun, Cassia rides north in secret. As the heir to the throne of Ellery, she’s determined to protect her people, even if it means defying her father as she sneaks out of the palace to hunt the hunters plaguing her border towns.
But on one mission gone wrong, Cassia is captured. Shackled in silver and taken across the frozen wilds of Labrynth, she finds herself in the clutches of a woman spoken of only in warnings: Princess Reya, daughter of the ruthless Queen Andromeda.
Cassia expects pain. Death. Interrogation. What she doesn’t expect is Reya’s curiosity, her mercy, or the strange pull between them that defies every story Cassia’s ever been told.
A sapphic fantasy prequel to The Flaring Moon series, Before the Dying King unearths the truths that came before the rebellion, and the love that almost changed everything.
