Prince Warren Paramark and Princess Violet Skystring have been writing to each other, and lying to each other, for the last twelve years. As two magically gifted royals engaged since childhood, they have been careful to conceal the most mystifying parts of themselves while they unknowingly court the missing piece their respective powers have been without. But when they finally meet, neither is prepared for the common enemy that forces those long-kept secrets to the surface. As Violet relies on her faerie gifts to investigate the source of her homeland’s famine, Warren turns to his dragonfire to combat the rise in monsters creeping in from the woods. Caught between the desire to connect and the duty to protect their people from the darkness that hovers at the forest’s edge, it’s all they can do to keep the danger (and each other’s questions) at bay. Lies and mistrust threaten to fracture Violet and Warren’s fragile peace. As the two are forced to compare old letters against a new reality, they discover that certain truths are too great to bear alone.