Maren believes she is the broken princess of a conquered kingdom, a girl too shattered to be a threat. In secret, she is the Iron Rose, the masked rebel who has been bleeding the Empire's mines dry for 2 years. Her father's crown was stolen, her people are being worked to death in the shafts, and the only way to set them free is to walk the corridors of the palace that caged her, unmasked and unarmed, and become the one thing no one suspects. Then Commander Jase, the man the Empire calls the Hound, is posted to her door. He is the hunter who has ridden her down for 2 years, and he does not know that the woman he guards by day is the woman he hunts by night. But Jase has a secret of his own. For 2 years, a hand that signs itself the Smith has been feeding the rebellion its schedules, its routes, its plans. That hand is his. He has been arming the Rose without knowing her face, and the day the mask falls, both of them discover that the enemy they have been circling is the only person in the world who ever truly saw them. They are supposed to destroy each other. Instead they have been building a world neither of them believed in, 1 hidden drop of loyalty at a time, and when the rebellion rises, the throne room becomes the place where both of their masks finally have to come off. Inside this slow-burn rebel romance, you'll discover: - A dual-identity love story where every conversation is a lie and every lie brings them closer - A heroine who has worn 2 faces for 2 years and is about to be forced to choose one - A hero who must decide whether to follow his orders or the woman who has been rewriting them all along - A rebellion built in secret, 1 forged blade and 1 hidden drop at a time - A finale where the throne room becomes the stage for a reckoning 2 years in the making Because the safest mask in the world is the one nobody believes is a mask.