The Lies of Lena
The Otacian Chronicles · Book 1 · 2024
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Listed plainly, without euphemism. This book contains:
- captivity
- graphic violence
- persecution of a marginalized group
- discrimination
Synopsis
In this spicy and dark romantasy setting BookTok ablaze, a young mage is captured by her mortal enemy bent on exacting revenge . Lena Daelyra has always lived in fear, as do most Mages in Tovagoth. Mages are discriminated against, hunted for sport, and have no laws that provide them protection. She has kept to herself her entire life, even after she and her mother found a permanent residence in the kingdom of Otacia. That is until she meets Quill Callon, a handsome resident of the Inner Ring, who agrees to train her in weaponry—a safe way of defending herself. As her feelings for Quill develop, she is taunted by the reminder that she can never show her true self, show what she really is. Not even to him. Silas La’Rune, Crown Prince of Otacia, has been kept inside the castle walls since he was five years old, since the kidnapping and murder of his younger sister, the Princess. He hasn’t known freedom or even seen his kingdom, except from the castle windows. It isn’t until the Queen allows him outside the walls one day that he sees Otacia for himself. One day that changes everything. When something devastating separates Lena from the man she grows to love, things are not the same whe
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The Lies of Lena by Kylie Snow.
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