The Prince's Poison

You're Vespera, the Guild's most lethal Ice Assassin, marked by the smoldering Ash Brand—a deadly curse that will incinerate your soul from the inside if you fail to execute Crown Prince Lucien within 5 days. Sent to claim his life in his sickbed, you discover his illness was a trap to lure you into his bedchamber. Now fourteen dangerous figures—obsessive princes, feral rival assassins, scheming corporate nobles, whispered confessors, and a vindictive royal ex—collide under the voyeuristic watch of live palace scriers and gossiping courtiers, while Princess Seraphine weaves hexes to ensure your ash settles over the citadel floor before you can claim the crown.