“ You wear the crown like it does not suffocate you.” Princess Elara of Valerith never wanted marriage. Not at nineteen. Not to a prince she had never met. But with her father dying from illness and the kingdom demanding an heir to the throne, she is forced into a political marriage with the infamous Prince Cassian of Aetherwyn — a cold, arrogant prince who would rather be anywhere else than beside her. Two kingdoms. Two unwilling hearts. One throne that could destroy them both. A slow-burn royal enemies-to-lovers story filled with tension, betrayal, power, longing, and undeniable sexual tension that grows every time they are forced into the same room… whether they want it or not.