YA Mystery Book - Fantasy #103

She was born cursed. Now she must enter a deadly competition where becoming queen might be easier than staying alive.

All her life, a seventeen-year-old girl has been treated as unlucky—someone to avoid, fear, and cast aside.

She promised her mother she would never return to the city where she was born.

Then her mother disappears.

To save her, she must break that promise and enter a brutal series of trials designed to select the country's next ruler.

There's just one problem.

She has no weapons.

No training.

No magic.

And almost no chance of surviving.

Armed with nothing but determination, she steps into a competition where the weak are eliminated, secrets hide behind every corner, and contestants are willing to do whatever it takes to win.

Then she meets a mysterious, dark-eyed Guardian who feels strangely familiar.

She doesn't remember him.

But something inside her does.

As fragments of her past begin to surface, she realizes there may be far more behind her curse—and this deadly competition—than anyone has told her.