The Queen and The Thief

Queen Esmeralda has spent her life behind palace walls groomed to rule, shielded from the hunger and pain beyond her gilded world. That is all she has ever known... until the day she orders a thief to be hanged.

Caspian is everything she's been warned against dangerous, defiant, and beautiful in a way that burns. A man who would rather die than kneel. A man who looks at her not with awe... but with hatred.

When she stops his execution and brings him into the palace, Esmeralda tells herself it is mercy.

But mercy does not feel like this.
Not like craving the sound of his voice.
Not wondering how surrender could feel like power.

He despises royalty. She is bound to the crown.
Yet each time their eyes meet, something treacherous ignites.

She saved his life.
Now, he may very well ruin hers.