the stunningly original mustread fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women centuries apart who hold the power to save their worldor doom itwhen assassins ambush her best friend rielle dardenne risks everything to save him exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens a queen of light and a queen of blood to prove she is the sun queen rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials if she fails she will be executedunless the trials kill her firstone thousand years later the legend of queen rielle is a fairy tale to eliana ferracora a bounty hunter for the undying empire eliana believes herself untouchableuntil her mother vanishes to find her eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empires heart is more terrible than she ever imaginedas rielle and eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia their stories intersect and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their worldand of each other