Daughter of Embers

She was born to destroy the world. Esme Oakenheart knows of only one thing: control her emotions at all costs. All her life she's been kept indoors with only the servants and her books as company. Now at the age of eighteen, she is expected to marry a prince whom she has never met in order to secure peace with her kingdom. Everything goes according to plan until her convoy is attacked by mercenaries hired to kill her. Now lost and with only Magnus, the captain of the royal guard, as her ally, Esme must find out who was behind the attack, but things are not what they seem. Her people are starving and in grave danger. Can Esme manage to control her powers or is she doomed to fulfill her curse and become the monster she fears to be?