LETTERS OF DEVOTION

For three years, they've been each other's salvation.
Through anonymous letters exchanged via London's Literary Correspondence Society, "Ptolemy" and "Orion" have shared their deepest fears, their most dangerous thoughts, and the kind of vulnerability that could destroy them in their ruthless worlds. They've fallen in love with words on paper-never knowing the face behind the pseudonym, never daring to hope they might meet.
But fate has a cruel sense of irony.
Joong Archen Aydin, the Fifth Duke of Ashmont, is England's most formidable intelligence operative-a man whose strategic brilliance has thwarted foreign threats and whose guarded heart has never been breached. Until Ptolemy. Until those letters became the only honest thing in his gilded, dangerous life.
Dunk Natachai Beaumont-Valois, Prince of the French House of Valois, is a spy sent to London with one mission: seduce the Duke of Ashmont, steal England's military secrets, and return to Paris a hero. It should be simple. He's done it before.
Except Dunk is Orion. And Joong is Ptolemy.
They meet at a glittering ball in May 1843-and despise each other on sight. A misunderstanding, political tension, and wounded pride ignite instant enmity. While they clash in London's ballrooms, they pour their hearts out in letters, each confessing their growing fear of their new "enemy" while seeking comfort from their beloved correspondent.
Neither knows the devastating truth: they're the same person.
The man Dunk must betray is the man he loves.
The man Joong suspects of espionage is the man who owns his heart.
When identities are revealed, empires will tremble. Hearts will shatter. And two men will face an impossible choice: love or loyalty. Truth or survival. Each other or everything they've ever known.
In a world where their love is a crime punishable by death, discovery isn't just dangerous-it's data

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