A Stark girl meets Prince Aerion Targaryen as a child on the shores beneath the Red Keep. What begins as an unexpected friendship grows into a bond neither of them can forget. Years later, Aerion has become a prince feared throughout the realm, surrounded by whispers of cruelty, madness, and a dangerous obsession with fire and destiny. When King Maekar demands that his sons marry, Aerion makes an unexpected choice. He chooses her. But marriage to a Targaryen prince comes with more than courtly expectations. As the realm grows darker and the Targaryen family faces its own turmoil, she must discover whether the boy she once knew is still hidden beneath the prince he has become. A wolf from the North. A dragon from the South. And a bond forged long before either of them understood what it would mean