Truth: When Danger Lies at Every Turn (The Truth Series) (Volume 3)

Three hundred years ago, the four princes of the last King of a united Corrin, tore the country apart, all for the sake of naming themselves individual Kings of the cardinal lands. This igniting what has come to be known as the Great War. But before the Kings could be crowned, an oracle stepped forward to deliver a prophecy: one day, when Corrin stands in her darkest hour, four children from the sundered lands will come together, marked by fate with a single blood red stripe upon their cheek’s, and they will save this country once and for all time. Crowned Princess Alicia Summer has always known her fate as the Defender of the East, but after her father died in a horrible accident when she was young, and her mother took over as Queen, everything changed. No longer was she treated like a Princess, but more and more like an outcast. For no one could love a monstrosity such as a Defender. Determined to live up to the expectations that her father had of her in life, Alicia set off on her own to find and recruit the other three Defenders, beginning with Alex, Defender of the South. Having decided to set their eyes on the West, Alex and Alicia have faced many great dangers during their trek through the Obi, but what they find in the West is unlike anything they ever could have imagined possible! With such a strange, contradicting culture at hand, will they ever be able to meet the Defender of the West and convince them to join them, or will this be where the journey ends? *** “Do you have any idea what it’s like to live in a place brimming with love and happiness…yet you’re the only one who has to sit alone watching it happen without you, because almost everyone wishes you’d never even existed? Why shouldn’t I want to run away from a place like this? Why should I risk my life for people like this?! I don’t-…I don’t even know what it means to be a Defender, if everyone including me wishes the title had never been foretold by the stupid profit, to begin with.”