Part of The Elemental Trilogy by Sherry Thomas
First published 2014
Iolanthe Seabourne walks back through the gates of Eton College still wearing the identity of Archer Fairfax. A summer apart from Titus has done nothing to cool her resolve. She is no longer bound to him by blood oath, but she has chosen this fight anyway, and that choice feels more solid than any magical contract. Atlantis is getting closer. Its agents are not waiting. Then Titus uncovers something that cuts the ground out from under both of them. What he learns forces him to look at their entire mission differently, and the version of the future his mother's prophecies described starts to look less like a map and more like a trap. Iolanthe has to find her footing in a role she did not expect, one that asks more of her than she knew she had. Titus has to decide whether to keep following a dead woman's visions or to step into a future no one has seen. The two of them built something over months of shared danger, and now that thing is being tested from the inside.
Genres: romance, adventure, fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intense, suspenseful
Tropes: chosen-one, found-family, prophecy-subversion, slow-burn-romance
Setting: Eton College, Atlantis
414 pages · Hardcover · Balzer + Bray
Content warnings: death, violence