Crown of Thorns & Stars

Princess Elara was twelve when her uncle seized the throne and murdered her family. She survived by being overlooked—a girl child, easily forgotten. For ten years she's lived in exile, learning the one weapon no one can take from her: the art of making people believe what she needs them to believe. Now twenty-two, Elara returns to the Thornwood Court not as a conqueror, but as a minor diplomatic envoy from a neighboring kingdom. No one recognizes the child they thought they killed. No one suspec