The Jewel (The Lonely City #1)

The Jewel is wealth
The Jewel is beauty
The Jewel is royalty

But for girls like Violet, the Jewel is nothing more than submission.

She was born and raised in the Swamp. For years, she was trained to fulfill a single purpose: to serve royalty. But a brutal and violent reality lurks behind the Jewel's glittering facade.

There, Violet will learn just how far a person will go to gain power. But, even worse, she will realize that the lives of young women like her are worth less than she ever imagined.

Now she must find a way to survive, to escape from that future she was so carefully prepared for, before it's too late…