The Cruel Prince

Jude knows exactly what she is: a mortal girl living in a land of immortal monsters. She watches the High Fae with a mixture of envy and revulsion, they are as beautiful and as lethal as blades forged in divine fire, destined to live forever while she withers. And then there is Prince Cardan, the youngest and most cruel son of the High King. Jude hates him with a visceral intensity that catches in her throat, a hatred so potent it borders on obsession.

Stolen away to the treacherous High Court of Faerie at age seven after the brutal murder of her parents, Jude has spent a decade navigating a world that views her as nothing more than prey. Now seventeen, she is tired of cowering. Despite the disdain the fey hold for humans, Jude is determined to win a permanent place at Court, even if she has to bleed for it.

To earn her standing, she must do the unthinkable: defy Cardan and endure the scorched-earth consequences of his wrath.

But her act of rebellion pulls her deep into a web of palace intrigue and lethal deceptions. As she uncovers her own chilling capacity for violence, Jude realizes that a civil war is brewing, one that threatens to drown the Faerie realms in blood. To save her sisters and the only home she’s ever known, she must forge a dangerous alliance and risk everything, proving that in a world of magic, a mortal girl with nothing to lose is the most dangerous creature of all.