Alexandra Christo

From the author of To Kill a Kingdom comes Princess of Souls, a Rapunzel-inspired YA fantasy romance about a teen witch groomed to steal souls for an immortal king and the reckless, rebellious boy to whom her fate is tied. For sixteen years, Selestra Somniatis has been trapped in a castle on the Floating Mountain, preparing to take her mother’s place as King Seryth’s right hand. Tied by blood to steal souls for the immortal King of the Six Isles, the Somniatis Witch foretells the deaths of participants in the Festival of Predictions. To outrun your fate is to save your soul and steal the King’s immortality. But if you die, your soul is forfeit. And though thousands have tried, nobody has ever beaten death. As a soldier in King Seryth’s army, Nox Laederic is an unlikely candidate for the Festival, but he has no plans to die at the hands of the King or his witches. His plan is more akin to violent revenge: steal the King’s immortality and kill the entirety of his court, starting with Selestra herself. But when Selestra touches Nox in her very first prediction, she sees her own death alongside his--their fates are unmistakably intertwined, and Selestra is no longer safe in the only home she’s ever known. Nox and Selestra will have to enter a turbulent alliance in order to survive long enough to free the Six Isles from King Seryth’s clutches and escape the new fate that hunts them.

Princess of Souls

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“Just because something’s dangerous it doesn’t mean it’s not worth it. Sometimes, the riskiest things reap the greatest rewards.”

““I’m fine.” It’s the biggest lie I’ve ever told.”

“Stories have great power. They should never be destroyed.”

“I don’t think love is meant to be a duty, and if it’s a promise, then it isn’t one that I made.”

““Nobody is innocent,” he says. “Nobody will ever be free.””

“Nox adapts and changes himself to whoever he needs to be in the moment. I can relate to that. I’ve spent a lifetime making myself small so others can feel big. I’ve molded myself into what they want me to be so well that I’m not sure who I am outside the walls of my tower.”

“Scars aren’t a bad thing. They show that you’ve lived, and who wants to die without living?”

““Look, you can’t change the past or other people,” Nox says. “But you can change yourself. Who you are now, today. If that’s what you really want.””

“All the world is a lie. It is only ever what we wish it to be.”

“Why are the sins of our parents something we have to bear?”

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