Requiem | Maekar Targaryen

Requiem (noun) /ˈrɛkwɪəm/
A song or act of mourning for the dead; a remembrance that lingers long after loss, often haunting the living.

When Dyanna Dayne dies, she leaves more behind than grief.
She leaves a place that must be filled.

Nymeria Dayne, a woman of twenty years, has lived her life in her sister's shadow but she never expected to be asked to step into it. Yet House Dayne cannot afford to lose its tie to the Targaryens, and so Nymeria is given to the man Dyanna left behind.

Prince Maekar Targaryen.
A widower. A father. A man who does not look at her without seeing someone else.

Their marriage is not unkind but it is empty in all the ways that matter. There are no cruel words, no open resentment, only distance, quiet, and the unspoken truth that Nymeria is not the woman he chose. And never will be. But grief has a way of changing men. And time, a way of softening what once seemed unmovable. As Nymeria begins to understand the weight Maekar carries, she finds herself drawn into the silence between them, into something fragile, uncertain and dangerously real.
Yet the past lingers in every glance, every hesitation, every memory neither of them can escape.

For how can a marriage begin when it was built to replace what was lost?
Nymeria must decide who she is willing to become: A shadow of the dead or something entirely her own.