To escape the ever-repeating cycle of life since her grandmother's death, Alerie Rose Tyrell finds herself on a carriage.
A letter from a cousin sets the Bejeweled Rose of Highgarden on her path to King's Landing.
The delicate Rose of the Reach clashes with a dangerous dragon of Valyria, a blooming friendship with a little dragon, and, adding in her cousin's ascension as the Second Queen of Westeros and marriage talks with the Sun's Prince, things are about to get a little more interesting. Heat of the sun or fire of the dragon-what is her destiny?
On top of everything, she's tired of mentioning that she's not a dancer, yet she finds herself right in the middle of one. Greens, Blacks, and her desperate desire for a peaceful life-all are up in the air. The difference is just that, between Blacks and Greens, it's she who is being lit up-and not in a good way.
Why couldn't the Doom of Old Valyria be stopped, so the Targaryens had their home?
Why couldn't she bang her uncle's head on the wall?
Why couldn't either of the princes leave her be?
Why, in the name of all Seven Gods, couldn't she decide between violet or honey-brown eyes? Curses!
Well, at least she had cute nephews to spoil.
What had her life become?
And why does the King look at her with a longing she can't understand?
What secrets is King's Landing hiding?
What skeletons are to be revealed?
By the time Alerie begins to realize that King's Landing is drowning in secrets-and some of them might just unravel who she truly is. She is already in too deep to back off.
To the world he was a beast but for her he would do anything.
He could have the world but all he wanted was her.
They say the things we want most are the things we can't have.
For she was so afraid of him that even the thought of him could have her running for the hills.
Little did she know that she was the only one who didn't have to be afraid of him.
Credits for the cover go to @Chatachino for the amazing cover.