When Queen Merione demands a new bride be delivered to her instantly, Tilla is the one who goes.

Merione is the last Queen of the Fyrgoth Isles, and she's been married fifty-seven times. Not one of those brides has survived a full year. Everyone knows she's cursed, and everyone knows no one who marries her will live to tell the tale. Still, the Isles need Merione's marriage in order to survive.

Literally.

Tilla is only a farmer's daughter, working the fields to keep her family fed. But her only sister's dying, and naught but magic can save her. And if she marries Merione, Tilla's sister will be healed. So, really, it's not a choice at all.

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