Twenty-one-year-old Maren Gracewood has spent her life believing she is an unwanted foster kid with an overactive imagination. Then her dreams become physical, leaving bruises, aching muscles, and memories of two dangerously compelling men named Alaric and Aldric. When her best friend Piper reveals herself as Pryssalyn, a sprite sent to protect her, and Maren learns the truth that she is the long-lost daughter of Spring’s King Eldros and Queen Vaelyra, and the powerful Verdant Crown current awakening inside her has drawn the attention of every predator in Elarion.
Pulled into a realm of living forests, rival courts, weaponized mirrors, political bargains, and monsters that feed on fear, Maren must learn to control her magic before Winter’s mirrorweaver network turns her into a doorway. At her side are Aldric, whose fierce devotion leaves no room for doubt, and Alaric, whose careful control begins to crack beneath a bond neither prince can deny.
As Summer’s Princess Lysandria, Autumn’s Therion, a calculating foreign prince, and traitors inside Spring’s own walls attempt to manipulate, isolate, or claim her, Maren refuses to become anyone’s symbol, weapon, or prize. To save her family, her bonded princes, and the realm that should have been hers all along, she must stop running, reclaim the crown written into her blood, and become powerful enough to close every path leading to her forever.
