Blackheart (The Blackheart Saga #1)

Prologue

“It’s your fault!” Queen Delaina screeched. “All of you!”

Hooded healers rushed away with the limp body of little Princess Clayvarie, who would likely never wake again.

There was a price to be paid for what happened to the sole heir, and thousands would pay it. Those of privilege called for the mass execution of the Dark Natured. They would have gotten their way if not for King Clarke.

Yearning to surpass those before him as a peaceful ruler, he forged a plan to “save” us. Instead of slaughter, he forced us into an isolated city within towering obsidian walls. For this, some would say he was the worst to have ever sat on the throne.

It was no home, but a cage. Once inside, we never came out. Three winters confined had tamed many—

but not all.