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"There is always a choice."
Adara Konsdóttir has had to battle her way to the top of the military world. As a former Delta Force soldier turned commander of an elite private military, she lives by the Maelstrom Company's motto: "Make the world a better place." When she's tasked with her newest mission, she learns every lie carries a doubled cost.
Across the world, Princess Kali Ali of Al Kamara is expected to inherit the throne. When her ritual of inheritance goes terribly wrong, Kali and her family are thrust into the spotlight as her family fractures, her brother's exile haunts the kingdom, and every choice is broadcast to a nation on the brink of war.
When Adara's mission and Kali's nightmare collide, the two women - and the exiled prince caught between them, Suri Ali - must navigate a web of lies stretching from palace courts to foreign battlefields. As loyalties split and blood spills, the trio will be forced to answer:
What does it mean to be native: to your family, your country, or yourself?
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