He guarded a nation at sea. She fought battles nobody around her could see. She looked soft enough to break. He looked strong enough to survive anything. Yet somehow, he was the only one who noticed she was drowning

For centuries, the sun has never risen over the Night Court. Once, the Sun Goddess and the ruler of Night ruled in balance-until love turned into betrayal, and a curse shattered both kingdoms. The night was left to wither in darkness, and the sun began to fade with it. Every hundred years, the Sun Court sends one chosen to restore what was lost... or die trying. Lunaria was never meant to be chosen. A simple florist with the weakest of powers, she has spent her life growing flowers, far from the politics of the Solivelle Court. But when the king summons her for the Trials, the truth she was never meant to know comes to light-she is not a commoner, but a hidden princess, sent as punishment for her mother's past. Now forced into a deadly trial she was never prepared for, Lunaria must compete against the strongest of her kingdom. And across the divide, the Night Court sends their own. Vaeryn, the silent and feared prince of Umbryth, is said to be the last remnant of a dying power. Cold, dangerous, and hiding secrets of his own, he is everything Lunaria has been taught to fear. But as the trials begin, something is wrong. The power they seek is not lost. It is buried. And only those who carry both light and darkness will survive long enough to awaken it. In a world where love once destroyed the sun, history may be ready to repeat itself.