After her mother's death, Elaena Hightower is drawn into a political marriage with the heir to the Iron Throne. Duty is demanded, and love uncertain. Or perhaps, inevitable?

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?

Aelena never chose him. Bound by duty to Baelor Targaryen, a man older, distant, and already tied to a life before her, she enters a marriage neither of them truly wanted. But in the quiet moments between obligation and expectation, something unexpected begins to grow something as dangerous as it is undeniable..

as king daeron ii is looking for wives for his sons, to strengthen his own claim, he considers the last valyrian house who had dragons, house valreos

When House Targaryen gathers for the Ashford Tourney none except their lives to change. From Daeron's dragon dreams, to his brother's mischievous runaways to their cousin's happiness being made of steel

❝ 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘴. ❞ It's hard to fall in love with someone who has never look at you that way, especially when you are a highborn and he is not. - 𝕴𝖞𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖉𝖞 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖐 I don't want to have this kinds of feelings with someone, especially when she's the rose of the north. I'm nothing but a mere dog. - 𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖔𝖗 𝕮𝖑𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖓𝖊 -•-•-ღ-•-•- RATINGS: #1 in Hound - June 19, 2020 #1 in A song of ice and fire - June 19, 2020 #5 in Sandor Clegane - June 19, 2020 #127 in Fiction - June 24, 2020 #131 in Romantic - June 24, 2020 #944 in Fanfiction - June 24, 2020 -•-•-ღ-•-•- I DO NOT OWN GAME OF THRONES NOR THE CHARACTERS, IT BELONGS TO GEORGE R.R MARTIN I AM SIMPLY JUST WRITING A STORY ABOUT SANDOR CLEGANE A.K.A THE HOUND. I DO HOWEVER OWN IYREVEDY STARK.

❝ If fair is foul and foul is fair, does that make us one in the same? ❞ The saying goes, home is where the heart is. And, when the man who is betrothed to your heart takes you to Kingslanding, well, one's heart may just be trampled in the crowds and one's home may just be lost. #36 in Fan-Fiction | 8/13/16

"But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose." ― Anne Brontë All men must die. All roses must wilt. There is a streak of wildness behind steel eyes. Two distinctly Stark features, yet they belong to Anya Whent. A Southern lady born in the shadow of Harrenhal with the blood of the North running through her veins. Behind a fair face are a kind heart, a gentle soul, and a beast. A beast that takes a Hound to tame it. A bat disguised as a wolf. A man disguised as a Hound. ♞completed: January 2020♞ ♞editing: June 2022♞ Now an official Wattpad fanfic and featured in @WattpadGoT's "New Houses, New Names, New Story" reading list. [Highest Rankings] #1 in Sandor Clegane #1 in The Hound #1 in Game of Thrones #1 in A Song of Ice and Fire #1 in ASOIAF

𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 ╰┈➤ IN WHICH ormund hightower gets delivered a gift by the gods - a woman, sent from the future, with knowledge of everything that is to come in this war. he would be a fool not to use her for all she is worth... {ORMUND HIGHTOWER X FEM!OC} {ASOIAF / HOTD}

Sometimes the calm doesn't fear the storm. It welcomes it. A dragon princess shaped by silence and duty. Bound to her twin by blood and flame, his shadow teaching her caution. A storm lord made of laughter, noise, and a heart that wears itself openly. Forever caught between the dull of a drink and the thrill of a fight. The clash of fire and thunder seemed doomed for tragedy. Yet somehow, it became akin to coming home. ✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧ Set in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Based on the world and characters by George R.R. Martin