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Jacaerys Velaryon was meant to die at the Battle of the Gullet. Instead, he returns to Dragonstone scarred, sharper, and far less easy to love. To secure the loyalty of House Celtigar after the war, Lady Vaelora Celtigar is brought to court—clever, proud, and entirely unimpressed by princes. She refuses to flatter him, fears no title, and challenges him at every turn. Jacaerys finds her insufferable. Vaelora thinks him arrogant, reckless, and used to getting whatever he wants. Unfortunately for them both, politics keeps forcing them together. As rival houses stir, rumors spread, and old grief refuses to stay buried, hatred begins to blur into something far more dangerous. Because in a court built on power, love is weakness, desire is leverage, and two people this stubborn may destroy each other before they ever learn how to yield.