The Silver Flame

"I am not the queen they hoped to mold, nor the martyr they wished to bury."

People flinch as she passes. Neighbors avert their eyes. Mothers clutch their children. No one dares touch her. And no one ever has.

Eighteen-year-old Lyra Seravell has spent her life hiding behind leather gloves and Virellia's frozen isolation. But when a royal decree summons one girl from each of the seven regions to compete for the Prince's hand, she's forced into the gilded heart of Valerieth.

She travels to Au...