Hannalyn used to worry about feeling different. Now, she's worried about magic, matrimony and assassins. . .
Hannalyn has been haunted by 'episodes' for years, waking dreams of a different world. Until one day she's pulled from her backyard into a land where magic is a brutal industry. She discovers that she had been swapped at birth to hide her true identity and now her real family has been slaughtered, leaving her with a crumbling castle, a confusing grimoire, and a target on her back.
In this world an unmarried female mage is a commodity to be sold and to survive she must do two things: discover her magic and secure an alliance the old-fashioned way by marriage. She also needs to survive long enough to get to her intended groom: Malcom Peverel, head of a rising House who needs her bloodline as much as she needs his army . . .
Tropes: Portal Fantasy; Arranged Marriage; Fated Mates; Found Family; Forced Proximity; Knife to Throat