The bird caught in a mouse trap

Ariabella Farrow was wasting her life. Trapped in a never-ending cycle in the Empire, forced to kill and maim and slaughter, she longs for an escape.

Arrian La'Moira is the prince without a throne, desperate to save his Kingdom before it falls to ruin. He's searched everywhere for answers, even seeking them from the Gods' and trying to make sense of their nonsense. He's almost at the end of his patience, when he finds a sliver of hope in calamitous times.

One is burning and the other is drowning, but despite everything, fate pulls them together. With war on the threshold and deadly secrets that were meant to be kept hidden, now exposed. Will they succumb to the violence of war or will they rise above it?