Everyone believed Princess Elara Vale was powerless. They were wrong.In the kingdom of Aetheria, every person receives a magical gift when they come of age. Fire, water, earth, air—each power is celebrated, and those without one are treated as weak.Elara has spent nineteen years being the powerless disappointment of the royal family.Until the night she is sentenced to death.With a blade against her throat and the entire kingdom watching, something inside Elara awakens.The castle erupts.Fire bends to her command. The ground shakes beneath her feet. The wind answers her scream, and water rises from the stone floor.Elara doesn’t possess one magical ability.She possesses them all.Her awakening brings an ancient prophecy back to life—a prophecy that claims the wielder of the five elements will either save the kingdoms or destroy them.But Elara isn’t the only one who has been waiting for this moment.Prince Kael Draven, heir to Aetheria’s greatest enemy, has spent his entire life preparing to kill the person named in the prophecy. When he discovers that Elara is the one he’s been hunting, he is ordered to capture her before her powers become uncontrollable.Yet Kael soon discovers that everything he was taught about Elara’s kingdom—and the murder of his family—is a lie.Forced to flee together, Elara and Kael must uncover the truth behind the prophecy while kingdoms prepare for war.As their hatred slowly turns into something neither of them can control, Elara discovers an even darker secret:The prophecy never said she would destroy the world.Someone changed the prophecy.And the person who did it has been sitting on the throne all along.