The Darkening

Vesper Vale is the daughter of disgraced revolutionaries. Twelve years ago, the queen sentenced her mother to die in the Storm that surrounds the city and curses all who touch it. Since then, Vesper and her father have been in hiding. When the queen's soldiers, led by a paranoid prince, capture her father, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him. She even arm herself with her father's dangerous experimental magic book. Even infiltrating the prince's elite brigade of mage-soldiers. Even sneak into the cold heart of the young monarch. But then Vesper makes a discovery related to the death of her mother, and she will have to make a decision to save the city from her: entrust her family secrets to the evil prince, or follow in the footsteps of her mother. her and go into the Storm.