Dancing flames
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She was born to be perfect. Raised to be silent. Trained to be everything but herself.
Princess Anthea has lived in a gilded cage, adored but never seen. The palace demands obedience, her parents demand perfection, and the world only receives the poised facade she shows to them. But behind closed doors, she's crumbling-drowning in a life that's all pretence, starving for anything genuine.
Then she meets Selene-fearless, defiant, and refusing to play anyone's games. Selene doesn't see a princess; she sees a girl suffocating under expectations, a girl who was never given a voice in creating her own fate. And for the first time, Anthea begins to wonder: What if she could be more?
But freedom comes at a cost. Defying her family is jeopardizing all things-her throne, her fate, even her own life. As her meticulously designed world begins to shatter, Anthea is forced to make an unbearable choice: stay in the only existence she has ever known or leap into the void and fight for the freedom she was never meant to have.
A story of love, rebellion, and the courage to claim your own identity-even when the world tells you not to.
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