At the turn of a new decade, two successors rise to their Alpha titles with the same vow: to end one another's bloodline for once and for all. Centuries of alliances ending in treachery, love affairs in tragedy, and lives in deaths, however, amount to nothing when all eyes turn to the two rivaling souls as the country's only hope for salvation against the Kindlings, an Empire hellbent on revenge. --- Naileah Darling has only ever had his death in mind. His convictions, his politics, his muses-how she despises them all. And just when finally she gets the power she needs to see him fall, she's forced to play pretend. Amos Dark holds nothing dear to him. He's lost both his brothers to the trees, his parents to blades, and any passion for life to a vengeful girl. Though he stands on a powerful pedestal with his reign the most feared in all the Woodland Empire, he can't shake the feeling that he won't ever relish his new life as ruler until he cuts the last tie to his old one: Naileah Darling. But when the Woodland's King and Queen are assassinated, the two find themselves forced to bear the weight of a country divided by war in order to save them all. A new Darling and Dark alliance, just like those in the stories told of generations before them. Some fostering love. All ending with death. And who are they to mess with fate? --- Book One in the Dark and Darling Duology.
6 parts