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Elara Ashworth has learned one lesson well: love is a trap. Betrayed and discarded by the man she once trusted, the blue-eyed, honey-voiced daughter of a fading noble house arrives at the altar of King Alaric Konstantin von Veldoria not as a willing bride, but as a woman bracing for the next wound. Alaric, sovereign of the small but formidable kingdom of Veldoria, has his own scars — a childhood spent watching his mother wither inside a cold and loveless marriage taught him that emotion is weakness, and weakness is danger. When his grandfather's dying wish binds them together, two broken people must learn to share a palace, a name, and eventually, a life. He will not force her heart. She will not offer it freely. But the king is patient, and the walls she has built, however high, were never meant to stand forever. As shadows from Elara's past return to threaten everything she has only just begun to trust, Alaric must choose between the crown he was born to wear and the woman he was never supposed to love — and Elara must decide whether the man standing between her and destruction is her greatest danger, or her only hope of healing.
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Elara Ashworth has learned one lesson well: love is a trap. Betrayed and discarded by the man she once trusted, the blue-eyed, honey-voiced daughter of a fading noble house arrives at the altar of King Alaric Konstantin von Veldoria not as a willing bride, but as a woman bracing for the next wound. Alaric, sovereign of the small but formidable kingdom of Veldoria, has his own scars — a childhood spent watching his mother wither inside a cold and loveless marriage taught him that emotion is weakness, and weakness is danger. When his grandfather's dying wish binds them together, two broken people must learn to share a palace, a name, and eventually, a life. He will not force her heart. She will not offer it freely. But the king is patient, and the walls she has built, however high, were never meant to stand forever. As shadows from Elara's past return to threaten everything she has only just begun to trust, Alaric must choose between the crown he was born to wear and the woman he was never supposed to love — and Elara must decide whether the man standing between her and destruction is her greatest danger, or her only hope of healing.
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