The Twelve Kingdoms: The Tears of the Rose

Three sisters. Motherless daughters of the high king. The eldest is the warrior-woman heir;the middle child is shy and full of witchy intuition;and the youngest, Princess Amelia, she is as beautiful as the sun and just as generous.

Ami met her Prince Charming and went away to his castle on the stormy sea-cliffs—and that should have been her happily ever after. Instead, her husband lies dead and a war rages. Her middle sister has been taken into a demon land, turned into a stranger. The priests and her father are revealing secrets and telling lies. And a power is rising in Ami, too, a power she hardly recognizes, to wield her beauty as a weapon, and her charm as a tool to deceive…

Amelia has never had to be anything but good and sweet and kind and lovely. But the chess game for the Twelve Kingdoms has swept her up in it, and she must make a gambit of her own. Can the prettiest princess become a pawn—or a queen?

Release Date: November 25, 2014

Kensington Books

I have The Tears of the Rose in my to be read stack right now, but it will be a few weeks before I can get it read. I am a huge fan of Jeffe Kennedy and wanted to do a spotlight closer to the release date. I'll post my review in late December, but wanted to make sure I shared this awesome series with other readers!