The look in his eyes said everything. The warmth he once reserved for her was gone, replaced by a hatred so deep it stole the air from her lungs as he looked between her, the engagement ring she had hidden for months, the prince destined to become her husband, and the Iron Emperor seated upon the throne. He finally knew the truth. The woman he loved. The princess he despised. She wanted to tell him every laugh, every kiss, and every promise beneath the moonlight had been real. Instead, she did what she had been raised to do. She buried her broken heart, lifted her chin, and chose her kingdom. After all, she had always believed she could learn to love the man she married. She just never expected to fall in love with another .

They crowned her, dressed her in gold, and taught her how to kneel. But they never taught her how to survive him. That, she learned alone. Once, she was gentle. Now men whisper her name with fear. She traded silk for steel, a throne for the battlefield, and somewhere along the way, the woman she used to be disappeared. Seven years ago, Elias left home for what was supposed to be a two-year journey. He never came back. Eventually, everyone assumed he was dead. Then one day, Elias walks through the palace gates alive and discovers that the home he remembers no longer exists. One nephew is dead. Another is terrified of his own shadow. The once loud, reckless king Elias helped raise has become cold and empty, wandering through a palace where laughter has been replaced by locked doors, graves, and people too broken to explain what happened. Seven years. A trail of bodies. Missing records. Burned letters. And one queen everyone seems afraid to speak about. Elias is determined to uncover what destroyed his family, but he refuses to let grief be the only thing left behind. So between searching for answers, he starts doing something no one else has had the strength to do. He brings the music back. Opens the curtains. Fills the dining hall. Makes the children laugh. And slowly tries to teach a broken kingdom how to live again. Then he finds her. The queen people call cruel. The woman war turned into something terrifying. She does not want to be rescued, fixed, or softened. Elias does none of those things. He simply stays. He is not a king. But he treats her like a queen. And while Elias slowly uncovers the truth behind seven missing years, their quiet companionship becomes something neither of them expected. Because the closer he gets to her, the more he begins to wonder what if the woman everyone fears was never the monster in this story? What if she was simply the one who survived long enough to be blamed?

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In which Salem is Tavari's bully. Graduation is approaching quickly, and Salem is told that he cannot graduate without a credit in a foreign language. His victim, Tavari, happens to be the salutatorian of the school. What happens when Salem asks Tavari for help? Will Tavari help him, despite being Salem's target for almost five years? Will they become more than just a bully and his victim?

Everyone expected the quiet princess to die. The tyrant king had buried wives before, and the fragile girl forced to marry him was supposed to become just another forgotten tragedy. But the soft-spoken queen does something no one expected. She survives. While the court fears the monster on the throne, she remains beside him calm, gentle, and far stronger than anyone realizes. At first, the king tells himself she is simply useful. Her mind is sharp. Her kindness dangerous in a palace built on cruelty. And kings protect what is useful. But the longer she stands beside him, the more the kingdom begins to notice something unsettling. The tyrant who trusted no one now watches her like she is the most valuable thing in his world. His words remain cold. His temper still deadly. But everyone can see the truth the king refuses to admit. The monster on the throne has fallen in love. And the quiet queen who was supposed to die has learned something even more dangerous The only way anyone could ever hurt her... Is by surviving the king who would burn kingdoms to the ground to protect what belongs to him. (Book 1 )

Mocked and betrayed by her fiancé, General Vanea Reis did the unthinkable. She called off the wedding of the century in front of six thousand guests, choosing her dignity over a lie. She thought she was saving herself. She had no idea that single act of defiance had just sealed her fate. As a battle-hardened commander, Vanea is brutally told she is too ruthless, too scarred, and too dangerous to ever be wanted by a man. Then, he stepped into her world. Yulius Von Gareth. A 6'8", white-haired crown prince and the masked general of the Imperial Dark Army. He needs a wife of neutral origin and unbreakable iron will to survive the court's deadly politics. He expected a marriage of convenience. He never expected to discover his Vashti; his true match. The connection is instantaneous. The pull is dangerously familiar. Despite a strict agreement to stay out of each other's lives, the boundaries melt. Their love isn't soft. It is charged, sharp, and constantly tested. As the lines between an arrangement and a real obsession blur, a deadly secret looms closer, threatening to tear the empire apart. When the mask finally comes off, will they survive the fallout together, or will the darkness burn them both?