"You say you have a stoned heart, yet you defend yourself like it's made of glass." "It isn't stoned but burnt with the ashes of what once remained..." •~• Augustina Camilla Aron was born from the ashes of man, her life revolving around the sacred golden hued blood that runs through her thickened veins. At the youthful age of twelve, her family was engulfed in the ravenous subject of war, her father died at the hands of an ambitious king, and her mother slaughtered in her arms with the jealousy of the rival kingdom. Now, at the age of twenty the Princess of Theadale, the Princess of Man, and the Princess of Fire serves beneath the man who slaughtered her family. The man who stole the crown from her father's lifeless body, proclaiming himself king with a single wave of his jeweled hand. Augustina is a slave to the King, a weapon forged from the fire of man to conquer the breathing for the entertainment of the world. She is a slave of the crown, a woman robbed her birthright. A princess born from the ashes of man... Third Place Winner~ The Dark Awards Authors Pick Best Cover~ The Dark Awards Cover by| mahana258