Blood Heir

Blood Heir is a 2019 fantasy young adult novel by Amélie Wen Zhao. It follows Anastacya Mikhailov, crown princess of the Cyrilian Empire, who has a rare magical ability to control blood and is framed for her father's murder after recognizing that the true killer is an alchemist whose identity she does not know. Believed dead, Ana spends nearly a year in hiding before recruiting the criminal Ramson Quicktongue to help clear her name, and together with her friend May, who can control earth and plants, they uncover a conspiracy involving human trafficking, mind control and a plot to poison the new emperor, set against the empire's persecution and enslavement of magical people called Affinites. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/