“This bold new take on a classic love story crackles with romantic tension, delivering a twisty ride full of secrets and betrayals.” Elly Blake, New York Times bestselling author of the Frostblood series. But old habits die hard, and as Leo navigates the glittering balls of the Valg Season, she finds herself failing for her first love in a game of love, lies, and past regrets.įans of Katharine McGee and Kiera Cass will be dazzled by this world of lost love and royal intrigue.

A TV marketer by day, in her spare time she mentors teens in writing and runs her popular writing advice YouTube channel. Now, he’s the biggest catch of the season and he seems determined to make Leo’s life miserable. Alexa Donne is the author of young adult thrillers The Ivies and Pretty Dead Queens, as well as sci-fi romance retellings Brightly Burning and The Stars We Steal. Elliot was the one that got away, the boy Leo’s family deemed to be unsuitable for marriage. Eighteen-year-old Princess Leonie “Leo” Kolburg, heir to a faded European spaceship, only has one thing on her mind: which lucky bachelor can save her family from financial ruin?īut when Leo’s childhood friend and first love Elliot returns as the captain of a successful whiskey ship, everything changes. But there is a terrible secret behind the Rochester's haunting, and soon Stella must make an impossible choice.Engagement season is in the air. When a series of accidents threatens the charismatic captain, Hugo Fairfax, Stella is determined to find the saboteur and win his love. Exiled from Earth, the remnants of the human race circle the solar system in slowly disintegrating space-ships, but the Rochester seems in perfect condition. Seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley, desperate to leave the floundering Stalwart, finds employment on the haunted space-ship Rochester.

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Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne