In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight - but she doesn't - and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighbouring kingdom - to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive - and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets - even as she finds herself falling in love.
Wow! I loved this story. I can't wait for the rest of the books for this series to come out.
One of the things that I thought was done especially well was the switching of the point of view of the characters. Though the majority of the story was told from the perspective of Lia, some of the chapters were told by others. What was especially brilliant on the part of the author was that the other chapters were sometimes labeled as being told by "The Prince" or "The Assassian", sometimes they were labeled as being by "Kaden" or "Rafe", and you never really knew which of the two was which. It was extremely well done, and I really was never sure which guy was the prince.
I loved the characters, the plot, the telling. I will certainly be reading more books by this author.
