Born of Shadow
Princess Anella was raised in a kingdom that worships the darkness.When her mother is murdered before her eyes, Anella's grief opens a door she can't close-and something ancient and hungry slips through. Now a malevolent presence whispers in her mind, offering power, vengeance, and a terrible kind of comfort.Smuggled across the sea by a refugee-runner with secrets of his own, Anella is hunted by the regime that wants her dead and haunted by the thing that wants her soul. The followers of Yisho claim their God can free her. But surrender has never come easily to a girl who has lost everything-and trusting a light that burns might cost her the only weapon she has left.As an empire schemes and a guard she left behind risks everything to protect her, Anella must decide: cling to the darkness she knows, or risk everything on a hope she can't yet believe in.Some shadows are cast by the dark. Others are born of it.…
