Eve has done the impossible—she won the election and claimed her place as leader of the supernatural world. Power is finally hers. Influence. Authority. Control.
Or so it seems.
Because beneath the celebrations and uneasy alliances, something is rotting. Someone close to her is lying. And the deeper Eve steps into her new role, the clearer it the greatest threat to her reign isn’t an outside enemy—it’s the traitor standing at her side.
Will struggles to protect her in a world where politics are deadlier than fangs, and trust is a luxury neither of them can afford. Jarek watches from the shadows with his Mountain Dew, sarcastic as always, drawn to the darkness growing inside Eve—and ready to help her embrace it if she lets him. Lucifer has disappeared, salty that the underworld didn't choose him.
As secrets unravel and loyalties fracture, Eve is forced to make impossible choices that will define not only her rule—but who she becomes.
Because crowns don’t sit lightly. And betrayal always leaves an aftershock.
Andrea Lee received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University.
Lee made her debut in 1981 with a journalistic reflection on life in the Soviet Union, Russian Journal. The book came after a 1978 exchange visit to Moscow State University with her husband when she was 25.
She is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, and her fiction and nonfiction writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. She lives with her husband and two children in Turin, Italy (2006).