Trial of Teel, Trial of Hearts

Vaneliel Rovishna has never cared for princes, nobles, or the whispered fantasies other women spin about them. At five-foot-five and over three hundred pounds of hard-earned strength, she's spent her life hauling water, running her small shop in Section Five, and surviving the quiet cruelties of a kingdom that sees her as nothing more than a "village rat." That changes the day a deadly beast crashes into her secluded waterfall-and she's forced to fight back-to-back with the kingdom's golden fourth prince, Thurnaire Mashlusk.

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What should have been a single battle spirals into scandal, political tension, and an impossible attraction. Vaneliel's sharp tongue and refusal to bow make her a target for venomous noblewomen, a foreign princess with old claims, and the expectations of an entire court. When the King revives the Crown Trials of Steel and Vaneliel secretly enters, she shocks the kingdom by cutting her way through every opponent-until she ends up facing Thurnaire himself, with her people's future and her own freedom hanging on the final clash.

As blades cross and hearts stumble, Vaneliel must decide what she's truly fighting for: the right to stand on her own, or the terrifying possibility that she and this infuriating prince might actually belong at each other's side-on the battlefield, in the court, and in a life neither of them ever planned.