A Dance Of Two Crowns

Isadora Whitmore never believed in fairy tales. But after the death of her grandmother, a visit to the family estate leads her to an impossible discovery-a doorway hidden deep in the woods, woven together by the roots of ancient trees. When she steps through, she's pulled into a world unlike anything she's ever known.

Her arrival is anything but welcome. Caught on the lands of the ruthless Northern King, Malrik Valtieri, Isadora is nearly taken prisoner-until she's rescued by Orion Vaelthorne, a banished warrior with a vendetta against the king. But Orion doesn't just see a lost mortal in her; he sees the face of a woman he once loved and lost-her great-great-grandmother.

Orion seeks to reclaim the abandoned Southern Kingdom and destroy Malrik, and he needs Isadora's help to do it. Desperate for answers about her grandmother's past, and furious at Malrik for her near capture, she agrees. But as Orion builds his empire, his hunger for power begins to reveal itself, and the truths he's kept hidden start to unravel. The more Isadora learns, the more she questions whether her grandmother betrayed Orion out of cruelty... or necessity.

And in the shadows of war, Malrik returns-not as a captor, but as something far more dangerous. A temptation. A warning. A man whose presence shakes the very foundation of everything she's been told.

With battle lines drawn and kingdoms at stake, Isadora must decide: stand beside the warrior who saved her, or seek refuge in the arms of the king she was meant to destroy.