EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORNSK ayena Hill, the princess in the novel The Lady of the Black Rose, is the most exquisite beauty of the empire…and the empire’s biggest fool. A mere puppet in her brother’s schemes, she’s fated to be married off to an obsessive and abusive man and left to die. Except…it isn’t just fiction, not when this is her second life as the princess herself and third overall! Armed with her memories of what’s to come, Kayena must now rewrite her story and win her freedom. This time, she’ll be the one pulling the strings!