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A year before the Ashford Tourney, Prince Maekar Targaryen is commanded to take a new wife for the good of the realm. The bride chosen for him is Lady Amara Rowanwood.A woman as beautiful as she is distant, twice widowed by the age of twenty-five and carrying secrets that have made her heart as cold as winter.
Neither of them wants the marriage.
Maekar is a prince of duty, stern and unyielding, a man who has long accepted that love has little place in his life. Amara, stubborn and fiercely independent, has no intention of becoming another obedient Targaryen princess.
Bound together by a marriage neither chose, they arrive at Summerhall as strangers and regard one another with suspicion. But beneath Amara's icy exterior lies grief and old wounds, and beneath Maekar's hard gaze is a man weary of war, duty, and loneliness.
As courtly whispers grow and old enemies stir, the two must decide whether this unwanted union will become another tragedy... or the beginning of something neither of them ever expected.
In a world where duty is often stronger than love, can two broken souls learn to trust each other before the flames of the dragon consume them both?