Trials of the Heart

<p>Kailan Thornne has always believed in magic-she's just never been allowed to claim it. Raised as a human in a kingdom where the Fae serve as the King's elite soldiers Kai grew up wishing she were one of them. Every test said she wasn't. Human. Ordinary. Powerless.</p><p></p><p>Until the day the Seekers arrive.</p><p></p><p>Thrown into a deadly competition of Strength Intellect Loyalty and Pain Kai must outwit rivals outlast monsters and navigate razor-thin alliances with contestants who want her blood as much as her friendship. But the greatest danger is the one who watches her from the shadows: a mysterious figure whose voice she remembers but whose name she cannot place.</p><p></p><p>As memories she doesn't own begin to surface-visions of emerald blades a storm-crowned realm and a boy she once trusted-Kai realizes the Trials are not meant to crown a victor. They are meant to wake something inside her.</p><p></p><p>Something the kingdom fears.</p><p></p><p>And when the truth begins to unravel-about the curse that binds her the shadow that follows her and the bond she never agreed to-Kai must decide who she can trust in a world built on lies...including herself.</p>