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Princess of Souls

Princess of Souls

FolkloreFantasy
Pages
416
Published
2022
Language
English

Synopsis

For sixteen years, Selestra has been confined to a tower on the Floating Mountain, groomed to take her mother's place as the King's Witch — the seer who foretells deaths at the annual Festival of Predictions. Survive your foretold death and you earn a wish and a shot at the King's immortality; fail, and your soul is forfeit. No one has ever beaten death.

Nox, a soldier in the King's army, enters the Festival for one reason: to steal the King's immortality and destroy his court, starting with Selestra. But the moment Selestra's prediction touches Nox, their fates tangle together, and death comes hunting for them both. To survive, two people who should be enemies have to work as allies — even as revenge, prophecy, and an undying king push them toward a reckoning neither can walk away from.

A companion novel set in the same world as To Kill a Kingdom, Princess of Souls draws on the bones of Rapunzel for a story of court intrigue, prophecy, and a slow-building bond between hunter and hunted.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkRomanticTenseAtmospheric
Enemies to LoversSlow BurnRevengeCourt Intrigue

Genres

Folklore Fantasy YA Fantasy Fairy Tales Romantasy

About the author

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Alexandra Christo

Alexandra Christo is a British young adult fantasy author who studied creative writing at university before turning to fiction full-time. She lives in Hertfordshire. Her debut novel, To Kill a Kingdom, a standalone about a murderous siren and a siren-hunting prince, became an international bestseller and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She followed it with the Into the Crooked Place duology, comprising Into the Crooked Place and City of Spells.

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