Within

Before the first dawn over the stage of a forged world, a living star made a cruel wager with her twin:
A question as old as time.
Can a heart forged in hatred and selfishness ever learn to love? Can a tree grown in poisoned soil still reach for the sun?
To find the answer, she built a world of suffering to prove herself. Sickened with her own act she bound herself within it, and for four thousand years Nhymera waited in the wilderness for a yearning heart.
She found two.
Two aging lovers who had searched the world for the only thing it would not give them:
A child.
And from their desperation, through the light of a living star, Wren was born, with wings the color of leaves and the gift to raise life from barren earth.
A gift among many gifts in a broken world.
Across the great sea lies Varrowmark, a kingdom ruled by fear, where the gifted are hunted, caged, and buried alive in the mines beneath a tyrant's Edict. At its heart stands a prince who smiles at everyone and trusts no one, whose every word is a lie.
As a grey lord slowly closes his net around Wren and an old friend waits in the dark, Wren must choose whether a kingdom that fears her is worth saving, and whether a lying prince can ever become more than the lies he tells.
For the wager that she never asked to be the champion of.
Because the challenge was never about her, or the kingdom.
But what lies within.