Jude is still wanting to save the ghost, so she goes with Cardan and the roach to retrieve the keys to his chains. Nonetheless, Oriana agrees to help.Ī few days later Jude is rescued by the high king and his roach. Jude helps the ghost escape so she goes back to where she meets her foster mother, who realised that it was Jude and not Taryn. Jude finds out that he did not betray them, Locke had his full name and therefore had full control over him. In the cave is one of the court of shadow’s original members. Jude maintains her disguise and finds out that Madoc and his armies are planning to go against Cardan and make Madoc king.ĭuring her escape, Jude hears a scream from a cave and can’t help but investigate. However, suddenly Jude is taken by Jude’s foster father who came in hopes of rescuing Taryn. Cardan had immediately figured out that it was Jude and not Taryn but he didn’t call the guards. She wants to go back to the magic realm, and since she is not affected by magic, she will be fine. Despite Vivienne telling Jude it is too dangerous, Jude accepts. If the high king uses magic to force her to tell the truth, it will be revealed that she murdered him so she comes to ask Jude to pretend to be Taryn.

The high king Cardan has put a trial to question people for the murder. Taryn asks a favour – her husband Locke has been murdered. When she returns home, her twin sister Taryn is there. She successfully beats the faerie in a duel. Jude gets a job to stop a faerie cannibal from eating her kind in the mortal world. She lives with her older sister Viviene and her brother Oak, who will be the future high king despite not wanting the position.

Jude is in the mortal world where she was exiled from the faerie. The Queen of Nothing starts where we left off in The Wicked King. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.Īnd, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity… Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

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