Princess Rose spent her youth eagerly anticipating her eighteenth birthday, the fateful hour an ancient spindle curse was destined to lift. Instead of a fairy-tale kiss, her betrothed Darius poisoned her goblet, trapping her in a suspended death-sleep to usurp her father's throne. Miraculously breaking free from the crystal coffin decades later, Rose awakens with a heart purged of naive illusions.
Refusing to be Darius's victim a second time, Rose joins forces with Silas, a rogue shapeshifting court sorcerer who stayed loyal to her crown through the dark years. With Silas's untamed elemental magic and Rose's ancestral bloodline authority, the pair infiltrates Darius's coronation feast. Unmasking the usurper's treachery before the kingdom, Rose claims her birthright alongside the loyal sorcerer who never left her side.
