Betrayal of a Crown — Melissa A. Craven

Fairytales. Fae. Immortals.Princes. Warriors. A fight for survival.Five books. One glorious set.For the first time, get five first in series books from M. Lynn and Melissa A. Craven in one volume.This set includes Fae's Deception, Dragon Rising, The Reluctant Queen, Golden Curse, and Emerge. Fae's Deception:A human girl with a troubled past. A fae prince from a stolen kingdom. When he steals her away to the fae realm, there is no going back to her old life. Under the rule of a captivating queen, the kingdom of Fargelsi has brought the three fae lands to the brink of war. And now that same queen has her eyes set on a new pawn—a human girl. Dragon Rising:Sometimes a battle isn't waged on a bloody field.Sometimes it's won within the heart of one girl.Hua Minglan wants revenge for the death of her sister, and she'll do anything to get it.With a decision that could cost her everything, she leaves her home behind in an attempt to take her father's place training under Commander Jian Li, brother to the emperor.The commander is a harsh man, a demanding man, and one with his own desire for vengeance.Hua can't get too close. She can't befriend the man who is able to bring her deceptions tumbling to the ground. If he learns the truth about who she is, it won't only see her shunned from the army for disguising herself as a man.It will end in her execution.The Reluctant Queen:Heir to the Valkyrie throne, Alithea belives she is better suited to the battlefield than the throne room.On the eve of her betrothal ceremony where she will finally meet the young man the queen's council has chosen for her--the man raised to serve her every need--Alithea makes a desperate decision that will change her life forever. Rejecting her birthright, she flees across the broken bridge to the human realm where she must hide her true Valkyrie nature.When the queen's Berserker bounty hunter finally catches up with her, Druan gives her no choice but to return to a war-torn world where her mother and all those she loves are trapped, powerless to resist the vicious usurper queen. To save her people, Alithea will have to do the one thing she swore she would never do. Ascend to the Valkyrie throne and take her seat as the High Queen of the Nine Realms, all while keeping a dangerous secret that could destroy everything.Golden Curse:A warrior with nothing left to lose. A prince trying to hold his kingdom together.Etta Basile has spent years among the trees, training for the day she'll take up the curse of her ancestors, a curse tying her life to that of her greatest enemy, the Prince of Gaule.Prince Alexandre was once a childhood friend, butnow, Etta must keep her identity a secret as she enters a tournament to becomehis champion.Her goals are simple: Protect the prince. Breakthe curse. Kill the prince.Emerge:Allie Carmichael has never fit in. People don't like her. They don't want to be near her. They don't want to touch her. It's one of the many things about her life that just doesn't add up.But there are a few things she knows for certain.1.     Moving across the world in the dead of night is not normal.2.     Her new friends might know more about her than she knows about herself.3.     Aidan McBrien is the most insufferable flirt she's ever met ... but she can't stay away from him.When Allie awakens to an excruciating pain she doesn't understand, a latent Immortal power emerges within her, nearly killing her. Now the secrets and lies have fallen away, and she is no longer the awkward, uncertain girl she once was.She is Immortal.