Child of Darkness (Lightworld/Darkworld, 2)

At a Lightworld royal gala Queene Ayla announces the betrothal of her daughter Cerridwen to a high-ranking councilor. Though strategically brilliant the engagement comes as a shockto Cerridwen especially. Infuriated by her mothers high-handedness ignorant of her own true origins she flees the courtleaving herself vulnerable to those who would see the Lightworld destroyed. Amid burgeoning unrest desperate desires become divided loyalties and terrifying mercenaries lurk in the shadowy space between rebellion and anarchy.