On Renee's twenty-first birthday, she's finally released from her tower to meet her betrothed. However, joining two kingdoms won't be as simple as jumping into a pre-arranged wedding. Between a scorned lover from Sebastian's past, senators hungry for power, and assassins hiding in the shadows, the princess and heir have their work cut out for them in this dark retelling of Grimm's Rapunzel.

Five families. Five dead princesses. A soul that refuses to pay and a soul that refuses to be sold. Adrian thought he understood the world he had been born into and the house he had been born to lead. But when his mother comes to him, the words "you've been chosen" on her lips, he realizes that he understood nothing.

He loses everything...except his life. And now he must fight to keep that, and the lives of so many others, too.