Among the Thorns

The great sorceress Rose is about to graduate to become the only Oneiromancer of her generation ­– and a remarkable one at that. She’s formidably powerful and strikingly beautiful, and has a prince trailing her skirts. But when rumour of oneiromancy gone awry reaches her ear, Rose discovers a secret that could wreck everything: a twin sister, deep within the forest, abandoned and hurt and ready to take all she’s worked for away from her.

In a faraway cottage dwells a young woman named Thorn. Although she lives a relatively peaceful life, Thorn’s never been allowed further out than the fence made of roses, and she hates when Jada locks her inside the root cellar. Thorn longs to see the world and find a prince to fall in love with. When she learns she has a sister who owns not only her face but everything Thorn lacks ­– prince and all – her dread of fading away transforms into a hunger that demands everything she’s been denied.

But Rose and Thorn’s encounter sparks more than rivalry. A bond thicker than any strife, shared solely by sisters, tugs at their hearts. They’ve been isolated their entire lives, Thorn in her cottage and Rose within a gilded cage of expectations – and shouldn’t a sister be someone to rely on?

Yet their separation was not by chance. The sisters’ fates have been carefully planned, political schemes set in motion, and the outcome is clear: only one can reap all the glory and claim the prince’s hand. While a life of perpetual non-existence awaits the other . . .

Among the Thorns is the deliciously romantic fantasy from the author of Never the Roses, Jennifer K. Lambert.