the second book in Victoria Aveyard's #1 best-selling RED QUEEN series. I WAS BORN TO KILL A KING AND STOP A REIGN OF TERROR BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS. Mare Barrow is aware of her uniqueness, if that makes sense. Mare's blood is red, the colour of the ordinary people, but because of her Silver talent, which gives her mastery over lightning, the royal court wants to use her as a weapon. Mare, who is being pursued by the enraged Silver king, sets out to locate and enlist more Red-and-Silver fighters in the uprising. But Mare is in danger of going down a fatal path and becoming into the very monster she is battling. Will the lives that are weighing on her break her?