The city of Crowns Peak seethes with scandalous politics, seditious plots, and magical power. Ava worries about passing her classes and flirting a little with her best guy friend until she uncovers a secret that threatens everything she loves— An unstable king, a treasonous duke, and a lonely dragon who have only one thing in common: a magically cursed knife. The dragon made it. The duke commissioned it. The king will do anything to keep it. To save her nation and those she holds dear,