The Wise Ones: A corrupt queen. A brave daughter. All of humanity at stake.

The debut novel from Rebecca Maston carries on the young adult romance and intrigue of Victoria Aveyard, Katherine McGee, and Rebecca Rode.


“Hatred had both united and divided what was left of humanity.”

“When she was very young, before she was a princess, she’d believed that princesses held power. Now she knew better. Queens had power.”

Adella feels trapped under the punishing rule of the power-hungry and corrupt queen, her mother - a woman fanatically bent on ruling the world even at the possible expense of humanity itself. Although she is one of the heirs to the throne Adella has no desire for power, and when she falls for one of her mother’s enemies she knows she must escape to save her own life, and possibly the lives of her subjects. Her only hope is to find the Wise Ones, a group of the world's greatest former inventors and scientists, of whom she is deeply suspicious and fearful. But would an alliance with them to topple the queen be enough to save humanity ... and the whole world?


A young adult romance in a dystopian society set in the near future, starring a royal princess as the female protagonist.