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In a kingdom veiled in shadows, the crown belongs to the one who survives the betrayal.
Prince Kaelion was once the cherished heir of the radiant kingdom of Elaris-until a coup ripped his name from history. Presumed dead, Kaelion was smuggled out of the palace as a child after witnessing his mother's murder and his father's public execution. Raised in secrecy among assassins and thieves in the underworld of a rival kingdom, Kaelion becomes a cold, calculating man obsessed with one thing: revenge.
But fate twists cruelly when he's forced to return to Elaris in disguise-posing as a foreign noble-during a royal summit. There, he meets Cyris, the newly crowned prince who unknowingly sits on Kaelion's stolen throne.
Cyris is everything Kaelion hates: noble, sincere, and loyal to the kingdom that destroyed Kaelion's life. But he's also beautiful, enigmatic, and painfully lonely behind the golden mask of royalty. A forbidden bond forms between them-of lust, resentment, and something far more dangerous.
As Kaelion weaves his plan to destroy the royal bloodline and reclaim his crown, he finds himself entangled in a web of truths darker than he imagined: the rebellion that ruined his family wasn't what it seemed, and Cyris may not be the enemy... but the last piece of the puzzle.
Now Kaelion must choose:
›ℌ𝔦𝔰 𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔫, 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔡 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢,
›𝔒𝔯 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱, 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔰 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔢.