Kyra Gregory
Fantasy (Adult)
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3rd Person Narrative, multiple POVs.
Mira has only ever had one purpose: to keep the kingdom she now calls home from ending up like her last. After leaving the horrors of Solesta behind her and washing up on the shores of Estera, Mira has spent her life a servant to the crown. A soldier, a spy, an errand girl, or a messenger, she has been whatever the kingdom has needed her to be. She simply never expected it to make her a wife.
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Eric, Prince of Estera, remains the king and queen’s spare until they have a second child. Spare or not, his proximity to the crown has meant attempt after attempt on his life. While his only desire is to keep himself alive, the king and queen have other plans: infiltrate the court of Adrethia, married to a woman who is more weapon than wife.
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To Mira, Eric is simply her way in—the key to acquiring Adrethian secrets, and to reuniting her with the family she lost. To Eric, Mira is the blade at his throat that sleeps in his bed—the death of him as soon as his own usefulness runs out.
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Faced with months in foreign court, playing their roles as husband and wife to keep from getting caught, their trust in one another might be all they have to get them home safely, and preserve their kingdom’s peace.
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But trust is fragile, and they just might get each other killed first.
Eric and Mira knew the love they developed during their arranged marriage would raise eyebrows, but their return to Estera is met with more than just suspicion—it’s met with danger. Greeted with the news that the assassination attempt on their lives was ordered by Eric’s own brother, the King of Estera, escaping their troubles is no longer a matter of simply leaving the court of Adrethia behind them.
With their post abandoned in the pursuit of home, the burden of uncovering Adrethia’s shifting political tides falls solely on Imelda. As alliances become murky and tensions rise, she must navigate a treacherous court alone—before Estera falls prey to the storm brewing across the border.
As Eric and Mira navigate the political unrest in their kingdom behind closed doors, and Imelda hunts for secrets in a foreign court, the fate of nations hangs in the balance. With secrets uncovered, promises made and broken, tides turning, and the shifting of sands, the future may not look as they imagined.
Talia has lived two lives: one as a cherished princess, adored by her parents, the beloved King and Queen of a united Trelann, and another as a fugitive, constantly on the move, hiding from those who slaughtered her family.
For nearly a decade, she has evaded capture, ensuring the whispers of a surviving heir remain nothing more than rumour. But when she is finally caught, it isn’t by her family’s murderers.
Prince Erol has one goal: to overthrow his parents, the tyrannical rulers who tore Trelann in two. But, as the son of those who had unleashed horrors upon their people, winning the hearts of a fractured kingdom will not come easy.
Following whispered reports and with the aid of spies from the neighbouring Esterian kingdom, Erol tracks down Talia. His plan? Convince her to marry him, to forge an alliance strong enough to heal their broken land, to be the rulers their people could unite behind.
That is, if he doesn’t scare her away first.