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Summary
Violet Sorrengail was born in chains.
The daughter of the Great Betrayer, she has spent her life marked by the Tyrrish punishment — twenty cuts for twenty years — and kept under the watchful cruelty of a foster family loyal to the crown. When her final cut is made, she is sent to Basgiath War College to serve the very kingdom that destroyed her family.
But Violet knows the truth doesn’t match the history books. Her father died insisting the wards protecting Navarre were failing, that monsters from The Barrens would return. For that, he was executed. For that, she has bled.
Xaden Riorson — son of the kingdom’s most celebrated general — has been taught all his life that Violet’s bloodline is poison. He should hate her. He should want her gone. And yet… every time she fights, every time she survives, his loyalty wavers.
As dragons choose their riders, as Venin stir beyond the borders, and as Violet unearths dangerous truths hidden in her father’s last gift, enemies become uneasy allies, and uneasy allies become something far more dangerous.
Because when the wards fall, it won’t matter who was traitor or hero. It will matter who’s still alive.