She was raised on stories where love saves the day
No one warned her she would have to live one.
Princess Cassidy of Cashlin is a dreamer in a court that has no patience for dreams. While her elders remind her that a princess exists to seal alliances, she slips away to the borderwood with her book of sonnets and the white saber sworn to protect her. Then a rider comes out of the trees that separate her homeland from the rival kingdom of Acleshra — a man with an easy smile and secrets he is not ready to share — and everything she was told to outgrow becomes the only thing she wants to hold on to.
Neither of them knows what is stirring across that border. A mage-prince named Levias is hunting a dragon, and the lost stone that will bind one to his will. With that power, every crown and every law that ever scorned him will burn.
Two kingdoms sliding toward war. A love no treaty was ever built to survive. And a waking magic that will bind the unlikeliest of allies before the end.
Some unions are arranged. This one was never meant to happen at all.
