Prince Anryn wears his skin like a boot that doesn’t fit. Always too small, too scrawny, too something to please his father, the legendary Lightning King. But when the immortal witch Maertyn Blackfire mistakes him for a girl, an evil curse reawakens, putting their kingdom in peril.

“An emotional exploration of duty versus identity packed with court intrigue and adventure.” —B.L. Jasper, The Ink Drinker

“Reminiscent of the Tamir Triad by Lynn Flewelling, and yet entirely its own unique tale of witchcraft and wizardry.” —Sally Bend, Bending the Bookshelf

Prince Anryn survives an assassin’s knife at a witch burning gone wrong. On the run and desperate for help, the prince turns to Maertyn Blackfire—a lonely witch cursed with immortality by the mages of Nynomath, Ammar's enemy.

Beneath Anryn’s uncanny face, Maertyn uncovers a curse he recognizes. Together they set out on a quest through a kingdom rife with intrigue and turmoil to get Anryn home to Beatrice, the princess his father picked out for him.

When a brush with Maertyn’s past awakens Anryn’s witchcraft, together they must end the Lightning King's persecution of witches or end up on a pyre—where only one of them can die.