Raised in the Dusklands where her power to create illusions was regarded as a curse, Sylvie has traveled to Coeur d'Or, where the Amber Empress, the cruel Severine, rules in hopes of finding her legacy--but the court is full of dark secrets and deadly intrigues, and Sylvie, now renamed Mirage, must learn to hone her magic, and find her way past the enmity of the empress to claim the place that is hers by right of birth.

When Eadlyn became the first princess of Illea to hold her own Selection, she didn't thing she would fall in love with any of her thirty-five suitors. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you... and soon Eadlyn must make a choice she feels more impossible--and more important--than she ever imagined.