Persuasion of Deceit

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How do you fight an enemy who can turn your friends against you with a mere thought?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Raven is terrified when she hears her father and the King's General discussing their plans to assassinate the king. She's also determined to join their scheme. If there's even a chance they can take down the man who's terrorizing the country she wants to be part of it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The king's power to compel people to his will is no secret. And neither is his unforgiving cruelty. But as a fresh face Raven can get close to the king-a fact that does not sit well with her father or the man she loves.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Soon she and her friends find themselves drawn into a lethal web. At the palace Raven is met with threats from all sides-astonishing secrets from her own past a betrayal that cuts her to the core and a foe who is far more intimate and chilling than she could have imagined.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The king is a master at mind games...and if they fail the penalty will be death . . . or worse.</span></p><p></p>