The Remnant Chronicles Trilogy By Mary E. Pearson

The Kiss of Deception \nIn a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia?s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight?but she doesn?t?and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom?to a prince she has never met. \nOn the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive?and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets?even as she finds herself falling in love. \n\nThe Heart of Betrayal \nHeld captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape . . . and even less of being together. \nDesperate to save her life, Lia?s erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komisar that she has a magical gift, and the Komisar?s interest in Lia is greater than either Kaden or Lia foresaw. \n\nMeanwhile, the foundations of Lia?s deeply-held beliefs are crumbling beneath her. Nothing is straightforward: there?s Rafe, who lied to her, but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom she always believed to be barbarians but whom she now realizes are people who have been terribly brutalized by the kingdoms of Dalbreck and Morrighan. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her very sense of self, Lia will have to make powerful choices that affect her country, her people . . . and her own destiny. \n\nThe Beauty of Darkness \nLia has survived Venda?but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. And only Lia can stop it. \nWith war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier?as leader. While she struggles to reach Morrighan and warn them, she finds herself at cross-purposes with Rafe and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down. \n\nIn this conclusion to the Remnant Chronicles trilogy, traitors must be rooted out, sacrifices must be made, and impossible odds must be overcome as the future of every kingdom hangs in the balance.