Ariella Vale has always lived like she does not belong anywhere. Then a silver mark appears on her wrist, a village attack exposes a hidden truth, and a stranger calls her Princess. Dragged into an underground city of magic and secrets, Ariella learns she is Seraphine, the lost heir of a murdered queen, and the key to a relic that can either restore a fallen kingdom or unleash an ancient curse. But Lord Varyn, the man who destroyed her bloodline, is hunting her, and someone inside the city is betraying her every move. To survive, Ariella must master the magic in her blood, decide whom to trust, and choose between the crown and the curse before her true identity destroys everything she loves.

In the kingdom of Horem, magic belongs only to the two royal blood. When the incumbent old king dies, the crown should pass to the Gallagher line. Instead, Barco (the heir to Marcus the incumbent king) strikes first. He wipes out the family and leaves young Donald for dead on a mountain cliff.Donald’s soul escapes the dying body and finds a new home in the empty shell of a hunter’s son. With a simple silver band that hides every trace of magic, he walks into the palace under a false, scholarship name. There he sits in the same classrooms as Leah, the girl he once loved in secret. She feels the quiet pull of something familiar in the new scholarship student but cannot name it.The men who took everything from him sleep under the same roof. His real body is gone. Time is running out. Every careful step, every held silence, and every stolen glance draws the danger closer. One slip of the band and the truth will burn him alive.

For eighteen years, Alexander believed his father had abandoned him and his mother.He never knew the truth.He was the firstborn heir of the powerful Sebastian family—a surrogate child his father’s wife secretly cast away before he even came into the world.After his mother was murdered, he was wrongly accused of the crime which led him  imprisoned. Alexander’s true identity is finally uncovered. Now, the family that once rejected him discovers that the helpless boy they abandoned has grown into a powerful heir with an empire of his own.But Alexander has to pick one out of the two choices: seek revenge on the family that destroyed his childhood, or forgive them and become the heir they never deserved.