Inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ tale “The Singing Bone,” New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins delivers a dark fantasy filled with rugged hunters, romantic tension, and a princess willing to risk all to save her kingdom. He’s determined to keep his focus on the task at hand-ridding the kingdom of the beast-but the princess continues to surprise him, and the perilous secrets he’s buried begin to surface.

Nor does he care much for spoiled royals and their arcane laws. There’s no denying the unspoken lure between them… or his mysterious resentment. Princess Aerity knows her duty to the kingdom but cannot bear the idea of marrying a stranger… until a brooding local hunter, Paxton Seabolt, catches her attention. In an act of desperation, a proclamation is sent to all of Eurona-kill the creature and win the ultimate prize: the daughter of King Lochson’s hand in marriage.

When a strange beast terrorizes the kingdom of Lochlanach, fear stirs revolt. Wendy earned a bachelor’s in Creative Writing from George Mason University and a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from Radford University. She is a former high school English teacher who now writes full time, and lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with her veterinarian husband, daughter, son, and doggie Rue. Wendy Higgins is the USA Today and NYT bestselling author of the Sweet Evil series from HarperTeen, the high fantasy duology The Great Hunt, and her independently published Irish fantasy, See Me.

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