Kaden teaches Lia some Vendan customs to help her get around Lia and Kaden bond. The Komizar soon leaves town, and Kaden takes the opportunity to remove Lia from the prison, getting her new clothes to wear and giving her a brief tour of Venda. Pauline is hopeful that the king will help Lia, rescuing her from the vengeful Vendans. He knows that Venda rarely spares prisoners.īack in the countryside, Lia's friend and servant from the Kingdom of Morrighan, Pauline, is traveling with one of her friends to try to get an audience with the King of Civica, the land where Lia is from. Meanwhile, Kaden is worried about protecting Lia. Lia is nervous about Rafe's ability to lie to protect them, but he manages to convince the Komizar. Lia and Rafe, locked in a prison cell, come up with a story about their reasons for traveling alone – Rafe decides to masquerade as a messenger from the Kingdom of Delbreck, though he is, in fact, the prince. The three characters arrive in Venda, where Lia meets the leader, the Komizar. She and Rafe are then kidnapped by Kaden, an assassin from the rival kingdom of Venda, who has captured the two royals but, because of his own conscious, was unable to complete his mission to kill them both. Along her journey, she is introduced to Rafe, the Prince of Delbreck, whom she discovers is the man that her parents have arranged for her to marry. The series began with Lia running away from her parents to escape an arranged marriage and her duties as the princess, which she had no interest in fulfilling.

The Heart of Betrayal is followed by a third and final book in the trilogy, The Beauty of Darkness. The Heart of Betrayal continues where the previous novel, Kiss of Deception, left off – Lia, Kaden, the assassin, and Rafe, the Prince of Delbreck are headed into the Kingdom of Venda. The main characters of the story are Lia, the prince whom she has been promised to through an arranged marriage, and an assassin who has been sent to kill her. The series follows main character Lia, a princess who dreams of escaping the fate that her position in society has forced upon her. The Heart of Betrayal is the second fantasy novel in the Remnant Chronicles series by Mary E.

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