From the creator of The LoomBreaker Saga and The Veilshard Chronicles Lyra Veyne is one of the most feared assassins alive - quiet, calculating, and bound by no one's rules but her own. When she's hired to eliminate a royal prince before he can claim power, she doesn't ask questions. She never does. Prince Kaelen Thorne is known as cold, distant, and dangerous - the perfect target. But behind the whispers and wounds lies a man carrying more than a crown... and far more to lose than anyone knows. What begins as a contract becomes a choice. What begins in blood could end in love. In a kingdom where betrayal runs in the bloodline and secrets bloom like thorns, two unlikely souls are about to change everything. A fantasy romance filled with action, loyalty, slow-burn tension, and the question that binds them all: Can love bloom in the shadow of a blade?