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Demetria Howard has spent her life in sunlit halls, hidden behind silk curtains and soft smiles. In Elyria, she is the Porcelain Princess - pretty, harmless, forgettable. A girl made for treaties and tea, not thrones and war.
Then the North comes.
Válhir's armies crash against Aureline's golden walls, and the war everyone thought would never touch them arrives with steel and fire. To save her kingdom, Demetria's father agrees to the one price the Savage King demands:
His youngest daughter. As a bride. As tribute.
Gunnar Hårek, King of Válhir, is twice her age and drenched in blood and legend. They call him the Wolf King, the butcher of three realms, the man the gods themselves don't dare cross. He does not believe in love, only loyalty. He does not take prisoners.
Yet when he sees Demetria - trembling, furious, and so breakable in her pale dress - he decides one thing:
He will not share her. Not with her kingdom. Not with the gods. Not even with her past.
Dragged from a palace of sunlight to a fortress carved from ice and stone, Demetria must survive a husband who terrifies her, a court that wants her gone, and a land that eats the weak.
But the longer she spends under the Savage King's gaze, the more dangerous her own heart becomes.
Because monsters are easy to hate. Men who bleed for you are not.
This is a dark fantasy romance with a brutal Viking king, a sheltered princess, an age gap, and a marriage that begins as a bargain and turns into an obsession that could set the entire continent on fire.