The Kiss of Deception (2014)
The Kiss of Deception is a 2014 fantasy book written by Mary E. Pearson.
On the morning of her arranged wedding, Princess Lia walks away from the crown and the stranger she was promised to. She hides in a far-off village, pouring ale and scrubbing tables, tasting an ordinary life for the first time. Then two young men arrive. One is the prince she abandoned; the other is an assassin sent to end her. Neither shows his hand, and Lia cannot tell which stranger to trust. Mary E. Pearson opens The Remnant Chronicles with slow-burn romance, shifting points of view, and a secret about Lia's bloodline that larger powers are desperate to keep buried.
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What is The Kiss of Deception about?
On the morning of her arranged wedding, Princess Lia walks away from the crown and the stranger she was promised to. She hides in a far-off village, pouring ale and scrubbing tables, tasting an ordinary life for the first time. Then two young men arrive. One is the prince she abandoned; the other is an assassin sent to end her. Neither shows his hand, and Lia cannot tell which stranger to trust. Mary E. Pearson opens The Remnant Chronicles with slow-burn romance, shifting points of view, and a secret about Lia's bloodline that larger powers are desperate to keep buried.
When was The Kiss of Deception published?
The Kiss of Deception was published in 2014.
Who made The Kiss of Deception?
The Kiss of Deception was written by Mary E. Pearson.
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House of the Dragon House of the Dragon shares the machinery Lia flees: betrothals used as weapons and thrones decided by blood, though its politics run far darker than her slow-burn romance. For lighter company, the film The Princess Bride matches the disguise, the banter, and love under threat, right down to a hidden identity or two.
Royal court romances where nobody is quite who they claim to be
Lia hides among strangers, unsure which of the two men who follow her is the prince she jilted and which is the assassin sent to kill her. Throne of Glass and its sequels build a trilogy on a disguised assassin working her way into a royal court, The Cruel Prince hides the same danger among treacherous fae royalty, and House of the Dragon proves a crown is never worth trusting.
Slow-burn romantic fantasy with a love triangle between two dangerous men
The Kiss of Deception spends its whole length making sure Lia, and the reader, can't settle on which of her two suitors to trust. A Court of Thorns and Roses stretches that same triangle across a full trilogy of fae courts and shifting loyalties, and Serpent & Dove pairs a witch and a witch hunter who are supposed to be enemies long before they're anything else.
Fairy-tale adventures about masked identities and games of deception
Lia trades her crown for an apron and a false name, and the whole plot turns on how long a disguise can hold before the truth forces its way out. The Princess Bride runs its hidden-identity romance through swordfights and true love disguised as banditry, and Caraval, Legendary, and Once Upon a Broken Heart all turn masks, games, and bargains into the real danger their heroines have to see through.