What the Heart Desires
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IT MATTERS NOT WHAT YOUR HEART DESIRES BUT WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOUR HEART TO FOLLOW
Arranged marriages do not only touch the world above the realm of the ocean. For Erena, a siren princess of the Okhotsk Sea, it is her impending duty as the eldest of her three siblings when she reaches her eighteenth year that she wed the merprince of the Bohai waters in order to mend the broken alliance between their battling kingdoms. Erena's entire kingdom depends on her marriage, so she has no choice but to marry the splenetic prince with a sharp tongue and short fuse. Just as Erena finally grows to form an uneasy truce with her quick-tempered husband, she meets Xavier, a gentle sailor who makes her question everything her life has been built upon including her fostered indifference towards humans of the world above. Erena must decide if she will follow what is expected of her or turn her back on everything that rests on her shoulders to follow her heart's deepest desires.
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