Forgiveness is the Hardest Act

For two teens, peace is only a figment of imagination. All they know is the war and how it has torn their families apart and ripped away everything they thought they knew about the world. Their countries are ravaged, their ranks are thin and their resources are gone.

Keith has been a slave since he was a child, a prisoner of war turned over to the market for a greedy soldier's profit. He learned the hard way how cruel fate can be and how scarce genuine kindness is to find, so he's learned not to look for it. He accepts the abuse his masters have given him because he cant see a way he will ever rise from the hell he has been thrust into. That is, until he is bought by the royal family of Altea, the very people he swore to hate, and meets a certain prince.

Lance was taught from a young age that the Galra were the enemy. They were beasts, incapable of even the slightest bit of human compassion, and, therefore, they were to be eradicated. That's why they were fighting a war that turned their citizens into monsters and drove his mother away. As the sole male heir to the throne, Lance is destined to carry in the war that he hates with every fiber of his being. But when his father buys him a slave in an attempt to break his compassion streak, he meets someone who might hate this war as much as he does.

The war is supposed to drive them apart, but what if it's the very reason they are brought together?