Kyra Gregory

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.