Book excerpt: The cost of love can be deadly. The only person Clara thought she could trust is taken, and time is counting down to the coronation when he will be lost to her forever. With the odds stacked against her, Clara desperately sets out on a demon’s cursed mission to seek out the only chance she has left - the oracle witch. But the life threatening trek to the witch is only the beginning. Of course nothing is free, and the witch’s price for her help might be more than Clara can pay.