A Princess of Darkness and Fire

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born to a queen who ruled through tyranny raised as an heir and a weapon and scarred by cruelty-Ruby has never known freedom.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Living within the High Royal Castle of Latvia she spent her life longing for freedom. Caring for abandoned children and dreaming of love she imagines a better world-until everything she knows is ripped away from her. Dragged into the Dark Castle by Queen Amaris Ruby is stripped of her power her friends and her life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For ten years she endures captivity. But in this darkness there's Nox. Feared by all the High General of the Dark Queen becomes her only constant-and even more.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Ruby finally escapes it comes at a brutal cost. Because of her Nox is executed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Haunted by the past-and dreams that feel too real to be illusions-she struggles to rebuild herself. But freedom comes with chains of its own: impossible expectations a prophecy she never asked for a love she can't escape and enemies at every turn.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To survive what's coming and an upcoming confrontation with the Dark Queen Ruby must embrace her power and destiny before everything she cherishes is destroyed.</strong></p>