The Threat in the Stone
Behind the ancient limestone walls of the Lisbon palace, seventeen-year-old Princess Camila is a prisoner of her own name. To the public, she is royalty; to her father's ministers, she is an asset on a geopolitical ledger. But when a brutal, coordinated ambush at a city museum leaves her personal guards dead, the gold cage of her life is reinforced with military steel.
With the palace under lockdown and a traitor suspected within the royal court, the King turns to a man who doesn't exist on paper: Raiden. Cold, foreign, and lethal, Raiden is a non-attributable asset from the Baltic coast, hired to be Camila's shadow. He doesn't bow, he doesn't care about titles, and his gray eyes hold nothing but the calculation of survival.
Trapped together within the suffocating corridors of the west wing, Camila must navigate the ruins of her safety while tied to a guardian who feels more dangerous than the rebels outside the gates. Because as the investigation closes in, she realizes the greatest threat to the crown isn't the cell crossing the border-it's the cold iron standing right behind her.