An epic and exhilarating story of deception love and revenge from the extraordinary Sunday
Times and New York Times number-one-bestselling author of DIVINE RIVALS. Perfect for fans of
Leigh Bardugo Sarah J Maas and Shelby Mahurin. Brienna is an arden a student of the five
passions - art music wit dramatics and knowledge. On the summer solstice in her seventeenth
year she hopes to become mistress of the passion - one who has mastered her area of study. But
Brienna knows that she was not granted a coveted place at her passion-house because of talent
like her arden-sisters. She is here because someone wished her hidden. Brienna has never
learned her father's identity. All she knows is that her mother was Valenian - from the land of
elegance etiquette and learning - and her father was Maevan. Brienna has never set foot in
Maevana but knows it is a wild windswept place fiercely proud of its ancient heritage of
magical warrior queens - yet now suffering under the rule of a tyrannical king. Then Brienna
begins to have visions: the inherited memories of a long-dead Maevan ancestor who hid the
legendary Stone of Eventide. If the Stone can be found the rightful queen of Maevana can be
restored to the throne. And Brienna has the power to do it. Swept into a dangerous new life of
secret alliances generations-old enmities deep family secrets and smouldering first love
Brienna must ask herself what is stronger: the bond of chosen family or that of blood ...
