DRAGONS ARE EXTINCT. WITCHES ARE OUTCAST. CAN MAGIC SURVIVE? Dragon fire once blistered the skies over Penterra. Now it is life inside the lavish palace that is most perilous – especially for Tamsyn. Treated as part of the royal family, but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn’s duty is to be punished for the princesses’ misdeeds. Tasked with the ultimate sacrifice of pretending to be one of the true royal princesses and marry Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, son to the great dragon slayer, Tamsyn accepts that her fate is to trick the deadly warrior. An unexpectedly passionate wedding night ends in near violence when her deception is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride … but Tamsyn isn’t what she seems. More than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy, she harbours dark secrets – buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist.