She accidentally leads them to believe that she is a princess from another kingdom and that she and Rhen are to be married. Harper doesn’t know how to answer the innkeeper’s questions. He has carried out orders to close the borders in his father’s name. Rhen later admits to Harper that his father-and all his family-are dead at the monster’s hand. They are angry that the king does not protect them from the monster. Rhen puts the woman up in an inn where they learn that the people believe that the royals are either hiding or dead. Rhen and Grey show up and take care of the other men. Harper runs her horse into the swordsman and eventually kills him. The assailants say they are taking the house and land for the crown, and they agree to kill the children and take the woman. She finally comes across a farmhouse, but it is burning to the ground, and the occupant-a woman and her small children-are being held at sword point. She climbs out the two-story window and takes off on horseback. On Harper’s first day, they resort to locking her in her room after a failed escape attempt. Grey wants to refuse but doesn’t flat out say not to a direct order from the prince. Rhen asks Grey to promise to kill him when, later in the season, he begins to change into the beast. If Harper doesn’t fall in love with him, he will become a beast forever. She decides that this will be Rhen’s last season. Lady Lilith, an enchantress, arrives and torments Grey and Prince Rhen. But Grey and Rhen quickly find that Harper is not as trusting as the many girls before her. He transports her to Emberfall (Rhen’s kingdom in another world).

Harper steps in to stop him, but Grey takes her instead. On one of her “stakeouts” she sees Grey, Commander of Rhen’s army, as he attempts to abduct another woman. Harper lives in Washington DC, where she plays lookout for her brother, Jake. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she’s pulled into a magical world. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in A Curse so Dark and Lonely?Ĭursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. If you are wondering what happened in A Curse so Dark and Lonely, then you are in the right place!Īdd A Curse so Dark and Lonely at Goodreads. This page is full of spoilers, so beware. Read a full summary of A Curse S o Dark and Lonely, book #1 in Brigid Kemmerer’s Cursebreakers series.

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