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A World. A War. A Marriage Aliance.
In the world of Endica, every soul is born with an elemental essence - which is an ability to command one of the elements: fire, water, earth, air, plants, animals, and the two rarest elements, the shadows, and the celestial. Two kingdoms have long held this world's fragile peace in a stranglehold: Aurelion, empire of invention, and Amowi, kingdom of natural abundance. Now, to end an era of hostility, they've brokered the only currency both crowns will accept.
A marriage.
Crown Prince Cassian Valenhart clawed his way to the throne over the bodies of every male heir who stood before him. Feared as the Lord of Death, he is ruthless, brilliant, and utterly without reverence -he spits on the ancient faith-Didyanism-and goes against its every rule. His Shadow essence is weak. His will is not.
Grand Princess Akosua "Seraphina" Nyamewaa Abonowoo is everything he is not - warm, deeply faithful, and beloved. A devoted daughter of Didymianism, the world's oldest faith, she carries the celestial essence, a gift called "the mark of the anointed" and adored by many. Beneath her grace lives a fierce, cunning, unbreakable woman. She is also a woman with an agenda. Whether he is a heretic or not she is determined to make him hers.
The Crown Prince has another agenda, a purely political one, and she was the perfect stepping stone to get to it.
An ancient threat arises and threatens war, yet the people of power keep it secret. Why?
A war is brewing under the facade of peace. Will this forced couple be ready when it surfaces?