Daughter0fCain
(Jurdan AU: arranged marriage/spy Jude)
To destroy Cardan may mean destroying the one person who truly sees her. To love him may mean betraying everything she was raised to fight for.
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In the aftermath of a war that split humans and Fae into bitter, isolated kingdoms, Jude Duarte-a human princess raised as a weapon-is her people's only hope of exacting revenge against Faerie. Forced by her father, King Madoc, into a political marriage with Cardan Greenbriar Jude enters Faerie with a singular goal: to infiltrate and dismantle it from within. Armed with her father's teachings and her own ruthless ambition, she embeds herself in Cardan's court, gathering secrets, exploiting rivalries, and quietly turning ally against ally.
But Faerie is not so easily undone.
Cardan proves to be more than the cruel, careless king she expected. Beneath his sharp tongue and decadent cruelty lies a mind as cunning as her own-and a loneliness that begins to mirror her own carefully buried fractures. As court politics grow more treacherous and her web of lies tightens, Jude finds herself drawn into a dangerous game where control slips through her fingers, and the lines between enemy and ally begin to blur.