The Midnight and it's Eternal Sun.

She is three things the world is not ready for. A Princess - hidden, firstborn, her bloodline a secret kept behind palace walls and royal silence. A General - commanding, fearless, her name spoken with respect on every battlefield she has ever walked away from. A Sun Summoner - the only one. The power the world has been waiting for, carried in the hands of a woman no one saw coming.

Solin Kir-Taban of Shu Han has spent her entire life wearing different names in different rooms. To her country she is royalty. To her soldiers she is General Solyn Jian. To a certain privateer and his crew, she was simply Zara - a wandering scholar with clever eyes and too many secrets.
She has kept every mask perfectly in place.
Until Ravka. When Shu Han ends its war with Ravka and reaches for alliance instead, Solin is sent across enemy lines - not as a princess, not as herself, but as a General walking into the territory of a man who has lived for five hundred years and trusted almost no one for most of them.

The Darkling has outlasted kings. Watched empires rise and collapse into dust. He has seen every kind of power the world produces and learned to calculate all of it.
He has never miscalculated like this before.
Because the woman who walked into his war tent in black-and-gold battle armor - who warned him, fought beside him, nearly died for him, and made him laugh twice in one evening - is not just a General.

She is the sun.

And he is made of Darkness.

And the pull between them was never going to ask for permission. Set before the events of Shadow and Bone. Alina Starkov does not exist in this world. The Sun Summoner does - and she is nothing like anyone expected.
Slow burn. Political intrigue. War. Secrets upon secrets. And two people who were never supposed to trust each other, learning that the most dangerous thing in the world isn't an enemy.

It's Equal.