The Tearling Trilogy 02: The Invasion of the Tearling

Kelsea Glynn is the Queen of the Tearling. Despite her youth, she has quickly asserted herself as a fair, just and powerful ruler.
But power is a double-edged sword. Small actions can have grave consequences. In trying to do what is right - halting a vile trade in humankind - Kelsea has defied the Red Queen, who rules through dark magic and the spilling of blood.
Now the Red Queen's armies are poised to invade the Tearling, and it seems nothing can stop them.
Yet there was a time before the Crossing, and there Kelsea finds a strange and possibly dangerous ally, someone who might hold the key to the fate of the Tearling, and perhaps to Kelsea's soul.
But time is running out...