Wither Thorn: (The Crest of Blackthorn Book 1)

If Caia doesn't escape, she'll become an instrument of destruction.

Shadowed by her capable older sister, sixteen-year-old Caia would like nothing more than for the cursed magic bound to her family's name to remain dormant inside her.

But the king has other plans.

Inside his fortress-like castle, King Arcturus has held the Blackthorn line captive for generations, and the birth of a second raiser in a single generation makes his court the envy and fear of the human and inhuman worlds.

The two ne...