Princess Toya Vermont is despised for the cracked gray crown on her head—until she discovers it was once a legendary golden Queen’s Crown, poisoned for sixteen years by her stepmother, Helena. Murdered before she can reveal the truth, Toya awakens thirty days before the coronation with her memories intact and a deadly new power: anyone who harms her with malicious intent absorbs her gray poison, restoring her golden crown in return.This time, Toya refuses to beg for love or mercy. As Helena and her jealous daughter Celeste scheme against her, their cruelty only makes Toya stronger. She also forms an alliance with Crown Prince Cassian Blackwood, whose fractured obsidian crown was poisoned by the same enemy—and only Toya can heal him.In thirty days, Toya must expose the conspiracy, reclaim her birthright, survive her father’s betrayal, and return to the coronation to take back the throne that was always hers.
