A girl with forbidden gifts, a prince who doesn’t want the crown, and a guard who just wants to survive the court with her forbidden lover. These three people are thrown together in a plot to overthrow the king. Ren, a girl with magical powers that have been banned, has lived her life just trying to survive. Her entire family has died and she is working to just pay off her debt and protect her friends and her own life. All of that is threatened when she is kidnapped by two rebels, Marcus and Darek, who offer to pay her in exchange for her leading their rebelling ( which, she DOES NOT want any part of since if it gets out she has girts, she will be killed*). Let me be cleaf, Darek may be her love interest, but there was NO chemistry between them and if I’m being honest, I disliked him the entire time. Right off the bat he is so antagonistic to her, rude, he doesn’t even try to see it from her perspective. If anything, I would have rather Ren had no love interest or her and Kellan got together instead, literally anyone but Darek. Now, onto Prince Kellan, he is trying to avoid everything his family is doing and trying to find some semblance of happiness outside of his bloody family. Then theres my favorite character, Adley, a guard for the king who is forced to do unspeakable torture if she even hopes to maintain her station, or even get to keep her secret forbidden relationship with her girlfriend. I loved Adley’s story and her very soft relationship with her girlfriend. Overall, I loved Ren and Adley, I love ladies who are survivors and do what it takes for THEIR survival. Thats what bumped the book up a star in my mind, I really appreciated these kick ass ladies and just how much they were willing to do for their own survival because if you were in their shoes, you’d do everything to make sure your loved ones and your own life were going to make it out. The story was an interesting one overall, and I enjoyed getting to know these ladies.

*Review is made in exchange for a copy from TBR Tour*