The Girl Who Broke the Dark

On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Eliana is ordered to enter the underworld and wake a prince cursed to sleep for a hundred years. She was raised to rule with diplomacy and magic, not to survive a realm overrun by monsters, and the curse carries a deadly condition: only the heir of Ymittos can break it. If Eliana refuses, the consequences will not stop at one life. Far below the surface, a sorcerer banished a thousand years ago has spent centuries preparing his return, gathering power, building armies, and laying a trap that begins with the curse Eliana must break. She must descend into darkness, outwit an enemy who has planned for centuries, and survive long enough to stop an invasion before it begins. Breaking the curse is presented as the beginning of a larger conflict.