Now Ruby’s about to find out that Conrad’s secrets go deeper than she ever could have guessed-and it’s up to Ruby to save her Gran, her clan, and maybe even herself. A killer stalks the city streets, and just when Ruby starts to suspect the unimaginable, she becomes the next target. Yet as Ruby gets to know him more, she starts to realize something's.off. Conrad is smart, dominant, and downright gorgeous. Then Conrad, handsome and charming, from a clan across the Waste, comes to New Haven to seal alliance between their two families. But after a childhood of running wild in the woods, it’s hard to turn completely around and be demure. In the kin world, girls Ruby de Varre’s age are expected to play nice, get betrothed, and start a family-especially if they’re rootkin, and the fate of the clan is riding on them. Crow stuns with this toothsome retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. The problem is, once she remembers everything, she may not want to.ĭreamily dark and spellbinding with a hint of horror, New York Times bestselling author Lili St. Dru doesn’t want to remember, but it looks like she might have to-especially since once Christophe returns, he’ll be on trial for his life, and the only person who can save him is Dru. They want Dru dead-but first, they want to know what she remembers of the night her mother died. Someone high up in the Order is a traitor. And then there’s the vampire attacks, the strange nightly visits, and the looks everyone keeps giving her. Her mentor Christophe is missing, her almost-boyfriend is acting weird, and the bodyguards she’s been assigned seem to know much more than they should. If she survives her training, she will be able to take her place in the Order, holding back the vampires and protecting the oblivious normal people.īut a web of lies and betrayals is still closing around her, just when she thinks she can relax a little. She’s at the largest Schola on the continent, and beginning to learn what it means to be svetocha-half vampire, half human, and all deadly.

Betrayals by lili st crow