From the\u00a0<\/b>New York Times<\/i><\/b>\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0<\/b>Where the Dark Stands Still<\/i><\/b>\u00a0comes an atmospheric fantasy based on\u00a0<\/b>Swan Lake,<\/i><\/b>\u00a0following Odile as her plan to restore magic to her kingdom gets disrupted by a murder\u2014forcing her to beg for help from the young woman whose identity she stole.<\/b><\/p>\n
Can two girls\u2014one enchanted, one the enchantress\u2014save their kingdom and each other?<\/p>\n
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Aur\u00e9al and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a plan. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king\u2019s crown, an artefact with enough power to restore magic. But to enter the palace, she must assume the identity of a noblewoman. She chooses Marie d\u2019Odette: famed for her beauty, a rumored candidate for future queen\u2026and Odile\u2019s childhood-friend-turned-sworn-enemy.<\/p>\n
With her father\u2019s help, Odile transforms Marie into a swan and takes her place at court. But when the king is brutally murdered and her own brother is accused, her plans are thrown into chaos. Desperate to free her brother, Odile is forced to team up with none other than elegant,\u00a0infuriating<\/i>\u00a0Marie, the girl she has cursed\u2026and the girl she can\u2019t seem to stop thinking about despite her best efforts.<\/p>\n
To make matters worse, there are whispers that the king\u2019s murder was not at the hands of man, but beast. Torn between loyalty to her father and her growing feelings for Marie, Odile becomes tangled in a web of treachery and deceit. To save her kingdom, she must find the true path to magic\u2026and find the real killer before they\u2014or\u00a0it<\/i>\u2014strikes again.<\/p>\n