Shadow Lord

Penny Barclay once believed the people closest to her could be trusted. She admired her mother as a clever, resourceful woman and looked to Lou as a friend, a person to confide in, and a teacher. Yet each of them had been concealing hazardous truths.

Penny is now stuck in the capital, holding the proof that Prince Aiden, the Lord of the Underworld, needs. The papers she found in her mother's study could expose the Cartographer and halt the rebellion spreading across the kingdom. The difficulty is that the Prince keeps his distance from her. If Penny cannot find a way to get him to speak with her, the kingdom's borders may soon be redrawn under the Cartographer's control.

Aiden is haunted by guilt. Penelope's screams still break into his dreams, and he keeps seeing the fire that reduced Barclay Manor to ash. With a murderer loose in the capital, he cannot let his feelings cloud his judgment, so he keeps Penelope at a distance even though she is now in the city. He is determined to keep the capital safe, even if that means slipping away from the mage with cinnamon hair and emerald eyes who keeps turning up wherever he goes.