That Witch Inherits

11. The daughter of the most powerful witch is nothing like her mother.

Young King Feren Faetcastel of Kypelaize is in quite the pickle. His ancestor's philandering and dynastic views left him without a prestigious enough yet unrelated potential bride to silence his critics-or the demons in his own mind.

The option his inner council gave him was to marry the bug girl.

How could he learn to love her more than those who haunt him?

Meliza Atwater held a Baronet's title by her own might as a mage, but it was both a more difficult set of skills to wield than her deceased mother's and unproven. To make matters worse, she didn't hold much respect for those who inherited titles, starting with her own missing older half-brother.

This contemporary of hers has the power to order their marriage without the room to object, yet still give her the freedom to rebel against anything but himself. Which becomes necessary with locusts, true rebellions, dark rivals, and continental fears of a witchblood on any throne.

Would it be too much for her to ask herself if she could come to like him, in due time?