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Paste Magazine Pick for Best New YA Books of August 2022An addictive, action-packed, scorcher of a read! -#1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson NoelSome shadows protect you...others will kill you in this dazzling new fantasy series from award-winning author Abigail Owen.Everything about my life is a lie. As a hidden twin princess, born second, I have only one purpose-to sacrifice my life for my sister if death comes for her. I've been living under the guise of a poor, obscure girl of no standing, slipping into the palace and into the role of the true princess when danger is present.Now the queen is dead and the ageless King Eidolon has sent my sister a gift-an eerily familiar gift-and a proposal to wed. I don't trust him, so I do what I was born to do and secretly take her place on the eve of the coronation. Which is why, when a figure made of shadow kidnaps the new queen, he gets me by mistake.A

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Heavy is the crown that was never meant to be mine… The one thing I should be thinking about is escape—but I’m not. Not yet. Pretending to be my twin sister Tabra—the Queen of Aryd—is what I was trained for my entire life. Only I was supposed to be a sacrificial pawn, not take her place. But nothing happened as planned. So here I am. A false queen stuck on a throne I never wanted, pretending to be wed to the man who has been hunting and killing royals of my line for centuries, and desperately trying to find a way to stop him. All while I pretend to be enthralled by him. I’ve done such a good job acting besotted, even King Eidolon believes I’ve come under the spell of the curse that binds us. A curse meant for Tabra, not me. Meanwhile, problems are piling up like sand blown against the palace walls in a storm. My sister is dying. My amulet has gone cold. Winter is crawling over the land, turning all to frost. I’m still not sure what that damned curse is supposed to make me do. And the Shadowraith I’ve given my heart to—a man shed from Eidolon’s own shadow—is coming for me. I need more time. If I can find out what Eidolon is after, maybe I can end this. The fate of every soul in the dominions rests on me, the hidden princess who was supposed to be disposable. I don’t know how long I can keep up all these lies.

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