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Princess Evelyn was born with hair like woven sunlight and a voice the crown never let her use. When she dares to speak the truth about the horrors behind palace walls, her father-the beloved and monstrous king-banishes her, erases her portrait, and sends her into the wild to die.
Alone in a forest of dragons and silence, Evelyn begins her unraveling. But when fire scorches her to ash, a mysterious mage steps from the smoke. Ren, a fugitive with scars of his own, saves her life-and slowly begins to teach her what it means to survive, and be seen.
But the crown is not finished hunting her. And neither the braid she clings to, nor the silence she's kept, will be enough to protect her now.
As war edges closer and identities shift, Evelyn must decide who she is without her title... and what it means to rebuild a life from the wreckage of one she never chose.