Shell-shocked with so much change and with nowhere else to go, Zoe quietly acquiesces and begins the journey with Serlast back to her childhood home city of Chialto. Serlast, the king’s most trusted advisor, has come to bring Zoe back to the capitol – to marry the king and become his fifth wife. Then Darien Serlast, a mysterious noble man from the capitol, arrives looking for Zoe, her life is turned around once again. For the most part, Zoe has had a happy life with her vivacious and larger-than-life father – so when he takes ill and dies, Zoe finds her quiet provincial life shattered by grief. After her mother died and her father, a former royal advisor, fell from his lofty position, he and Zoe were exiled from the capitol and took refuge in a small, quiet village on the outskirts of the kingdom. Zoe Ardelay, daughter of two powerful and ambitious families, is a coru woman to her core, a child of water and blood. How did I get this book: ARC from the Publisher Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a new series But as Zoe unlocks more of the mysteries of her blood-and the secrets of the royal family-she must decide how to use her great power to rise above the deceptions and intrigue of the royal court. She must return to the palace, not as an unwilling bride for the king, but a woman with power in her own right. It’s there that Zoe realizes she is a coru prime ruled by the elemental sign of water. Forced to go to the royal city, she manages to slip away and hide on the shores of the mighty river. Zoe Ardelay receives astonishing and unwelcome news: she has been chosen to become the king’s fifth wife. The author of the Twelve Hours series welcomes readers to a new fantasy world, where the elements rule.
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