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She spent her whole life craving freedom.

Mariah had been preparing for this moment her entire life. Her twenty-first birthday was supposed to bring with it freedom - from expectation, from scrutiny, from the oppressive lord who reigns over her hometown. But when a letter arrives from the Queen summoning her to the capital city for a ceremony that happens only once every few hundred years, she has no choice but to follow through on this final obligation before she can achieve her independenc...