This special paperback features gorgeous sprayed edges. From the New York Times bestselling author of When the Moon Hatched comes a dark fantasy inspired by Rapunzel,full of immersive imagery and breathtaking angstperfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer L. Armentrout. What a pretty flower to keep locked in a bigrocky tower. Nineteen years agoI was plucked from the heart of a bloody massacre that spared nobody else. Small. Fragile. An enigma. Now ward to a powerful High Master who knows too much and says too littleI lead a simple lifenever straying from the confines of an imaginary line I’ve drawn around the castle grounds. Stay within. Never leave. Out therethe monsters lurk. InsideI’m safe … though at a cost far greater than the blood I drip into a goblet daily. Toxicunreciprocated love for a man who’s utterly unavailable. My savior. My protector. My almost executioner. I can’t help but be enamored with the arcane man who holds the power to pull my roots from the ground. When voracious beasts spill across the land and threaten to fray the fabric of my tailored existencethe petals of reality will peel back to reveal an ugly truth. But in a castle puddled with secretsnone are greater than the one I’ve kept from myself. No tower is tall enough to protect me from the horror that tore my life to shreds.