Four Courts. One empty throne. And a realm beginning to fracture.Princess Rosalie of Spring has spent more than a century surrounded by flowers, family, and the certainty of the life waiting for her. But when the High King, High Queen, and High Prince are found murdered, Rosalie is sent to the High Court in her mother's place, joining the rulers and heirs of the four seasonal Courts as they search for a successor-and a killer.Prince Adrius of Autumn wants nothing to do with crowns, councils, or the politics that have summoned him from home. Born with a power capable of reducing life to ash, he has spent centuries learning that control is the difference between protecting the people he loves and destroying everything around him. The last thing he expects to find at the High Court is a Spring princess who looks at the darkness in his hands without fear.As friendship gives way to something neither of them intended, the danger gathering within the High Court draws closer. Someone has already spilled royal blood, and with the line of succession shattered and the killer still somewhere beyond their reach, the four Courts must hold the realm together long enough to discover who is hunting its rulers-and who might be next.Because the first murders were never the end.They were only the beginning.
