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To Michelle Grajkowski,

I’m grateful you’re my agent

and honored that you’re my friend.

You fought for this book.

Thank you, Warrior Princess.

Prologue

In another time on another world called Aerthlan, there are five kingdoms.

Four of the kingdoms extend across a continent. There, the four kings thirst

for war.

The fifth kingdom lies in the Great Western Ocean. It consists of two

islands called Moon and Mist. There, the fishermen and traders rely on the

two moons in the night sky to guide their boats safely home. Over time, the

islanders began to pray to the twin moons, Luna and Lessa, and now they

believe their goddesses are watching over them. The islanders and their queen

live on the larger island of Moon. Only one person lives on the small Isle of

Mist—the Seer.

The kings on the mainland refuse to bow to female gods. They worship the

sun, a male god. They call their god the Light and their people the

Enlightened. Anyone who denies their god is put to death.

Twice a year, the two moons align in the night sky. A child born on the

night the moons embrace will be gifted with some sort of supernatural power.

These children are called the Embraced. They are protected on the islands, but

in danger on the mainland. The kings will not allow anyone to possess a

power that they do not, so they dispatch assassins to kill the newly born

Embraced. Parents who wish to save their child either lie about when the

child was born or send the child secretly to the Isle of Moon where he or she

will be safe.

And so our story begins on the Isle of Moon at the Convent of the Two

Moons, where five young girls have been raised. They know nothing of their

families. Nothing of their past. Nothing of the destiny in store for them.

They only know they are Embraced.

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