Rose in Chains

The war has ended in defeat. The dark forces have triumphed, and the hero who was meant to rescue the kingdom has been killed.

When the enemy overruns her castle, Princess Briony Rosewood is taken prisoner, stripped of her magic and sold at auction to the highest bidder. Her buyer is Toven Hearst, heir to a family notorious for its brutal control of magic. He is also the man she has long been infatuated with, a feeling that was never resolved between them.

Briony must come to terms with the horrors of her new world and learn the part she is expected to play in it. Even so, the story suggests that not everything is lost, and that help and hope may come from the most unlikely quarter.