Between the Crown and the Sea

In a kingdom where marriages are decided like treaties, love has no place.

Seonghwa, heir to the throne, is about to marry a woman he has never chosen. Around him, everything is nothing but appearances: golden halls, rehearsed smiles, and vows shaped by the demands of the crown. His two brothers, Yeosang and Wooyoung, can only watch, knowing that one day, the same fate may await them.

But while the palace prepares for a wedding, five pirates have already made their way inside.

Led by Hongjoong, they did not come for the gold hidden behind the palace walls, nor do they care about the union everyone has gathered to celebrate. The ceremony is only an opportunity.

They came for the king's sons.

Taken from the only world they have ever known and brought aboard a ship with no explanation for why they were chosen, the three princes soon realize that their capture was anything but random. The pirates need something from them, something tied to a kingdom whose carefully guarded secrets may reach much further than its palace walls.

But what begins as a plan leaves little room for what happens once land disappears behind them.

A prince raised to inherit a crown meets a captain who bows to no king. A forgotten ring finds its way back into familiar hands. Secrets carried for years begin to surface, while strangers who should have had nothing in common slowly become harder to leave behind.

Between duty and freedom, loyalty and desire, eight lives that should never have crossed become tied together.

And when the reason behind their capture finally comes to light, returning home may no longer mean returning to the lives they left behind.
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Part of **The Crowned Tied** universe.

*Between the Crown and the Sea* and *Where The Memories End* are connected stories, but both can be read independently and in either order.