Welcome to the city of Veris, where the pampered elite look down on the struggling masses. Can she kill the beautiful boy who makes her heart flutter, even so far away in a jar? And if she doesn't, will she be condemning everyone she loves to another war between witches and humans? It should be easy- how hard could it be to tear out the heart of a spoiled, ignorant noble?- or so she thinks, until she meets Prince Lucien, the tenderhearted boy caught between the court and what he believes is right.Īs they grow closer, Zera grapples with the monster inside her. Zera will earn her freedom and all she has to do is condemn the prince to her deathless fate. Until the day her witch, Nightsinger, offers her a deal: sneak into court and steal the crown prince's heart, turning him into a tool of the witches, and Zera and the other two children can have her own hearts back. She spends her days fending off wound-be assassins and protecting the cottage she calls home, where she lives with the witch who stole her heart and two other Heartless children.

There will be spoilers in this review, but I will flag the paragraph they are in.įor three years, Zera has wandered the forests as a Heartless, an immortal soldier of a witch. My Review: I was given a readers copy by the publisher and YA Bound Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. So begins a game of cat and mouse between a girl with nothing to lose and a boy who has it all. The Prince’s honor has him quickly aiming for her throat. She’s inelegant, smart-mouthed, carefree, and out for his blood. No one can challenge him – until the arrival of Lady Zera. Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a Prince’s heart in exchange for her own, with one addendum if she’s discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy her heart rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating nobles.Ĭrown Prince Lucien d’Malvane hates the royal court as much as it loves him – every tutor too afraid to correct him and every girl jockeying for a place at his darkly handsome side. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger’s control, she serves the witch unquestioningly.

Bound to the witch Nightsinger ever since she saved her from the bandits who murdered her family, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. Goodreads Description: Zera is a Heartless – the immortal, unageing soldier of a witch.

Bring me their hearts