He’s spent years learning how to read horses before they bolt, storms before they break, and people before they say what they mean. But nothing in Elias Mercer’s careful, quiet world prepares him for Aurelia Valmont. The princess who refuses to act like one. She shows up at Bright Fields like she belongs there more than she belongs anywhere else, laughing in the rain, fixing what she didn’t break, choosing mud over marble every single time. He tells himself to keep his distance. It would be easier. Smarter. Safer. Except she keeps getting closer without even trying. And Elias is starting to realize the most dangerous thing in the stable isn’t a difficult stallion or a collapsing roof. It’s the way he’s already in love with her.