Reckless
After surviving the Purging Trials, Paedyn Gray did the one thing no Ordinary was ever supposed to manage: she killed the King of Ilya. The act makes her a traitor with a bounty on her head and lights the fuse of a Resistance she never set out to lead. Now she is running — not toward safety, but away from the one person she had wanted to run to.
Kai Azer is Ilya's Enforcer now, sworn to his brother Kitt, who wears the crown their father left behind. Duty says find the girl who killed the King. Everything else in him says otherwise. Kai's pursuit takes them across the Scorches, a stretch of desert that kills far more travellers than it lets through, and into the hostile city of Dor — a place with no Elites in it, where the balance between hunter and hunted is not what either of them expects.
The second book in Lauren Roberts's Powerless trilogy widens the world beyond the capital and pushes the romance at its centre to breaking point, as Paedyn uncovers the truth about her own parentage and the conspiracy the crown has kept against the Ordinaries.
An Ordinary who survived the Purging Trials by passing as a Psychic; she killed the King of Ilya and is now a hunted fugitive whose act sparked the Resistance.
Prince of Ilya and now his brother's Enforcer, sworn to hunt Paedyn across the Scorches to Dor despite being unable to stop loving her.
Kai's elder brother, crowned King of Ilya after their father's death, and increasingly hardened by grief and the throne.