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After Dyanna Dayne died, bringing Daella into the world, the prince swore before gods and men that he would never wed again. Dyanna had been the only woman he had ever loved, and with her death, something within him had hardened into stone.
For years, he kept to that vow, burying himself in duty and the raising of his sons, while the memory of his Dornish princess lingered like a ghost in every hall he entered.
But vows made from grief rarely survive the demands of a kingdom.
King Daeron II, unwilling to risk losing the loyalty of House Dayne after Dyanna's death, arranged another match between Sunspear's most ancient allies and the Iron Throne. Maekar would wed again - not to a stranger, but to Dyanna's younger sister.
A girl with the same violet eyes.
The same silver-gold streaks in her dark hair.
The same blood.
Yet she was nothing like Dyanna.
Where Dyanna had been gentle, she was sharp-tongued. Where Dyanna soothed Maekar's temper, her younger sister challenged it. She had grown up in the shadow of a beloved elder sister and had no wish to become a replacement bride for a grieving prince who looked at her only to remember another woman.
They were two people trapped by duty, legacy, and the expectations of their houses. And slowly, dangerously, grief begins to turn into something else.