Crown Jewels

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Every year a lottery is held to select sixty teens to be given the honor of becoming Jewels and dedicating their lives to the king. Being a Jewel isn't all parades and looking pretty though. The Kingdom of Banne sits on the edge of revolution and this newest class will be called to battle too soon.​</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Onyx spent her life in service to the elemental spirit Isa before learning she was to become a Jewel and must now find a way to merge her peaceful heart with the violence of a soldier.​</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She isn't the only unlikely Jewel though; the royal prince third in line for the crown and not seen in a decade walks among them. It's a good thing no one recognizes him after so long because the looming revolution has painted a target on his back just as surely as it has his father.​</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>It will take everything Isa's gentle child and the hidden prince have to become a Jewel with both body and soul intact.</span></p>