Storm and Steel | Previously Salt and Stone

She ran from the monster.
She never expected to fall for him.

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Princess Arinelle has spent her entire life doing what was expected of her.

Until her father promises her to a monster.

The Vaelor of the Vayr Dominion is a man whispered about in frightened voices-a commander who drowned valleys, burned villages, and executed his own officers. A marriage to him might secure peace for Aserin, but Ari refuses to sacrifice her life to a man she has never met and already fears.

So she runs.

Alone, under a false name and spectacularly unprepared for life beyond palace walls, Ari crosses paths with Reid: a sharp-eyed traveler with a soldier's instincts, an infuriating habit of seeing through every lie she tells, and secrets of his own.

Three days on the road should mean nothing.

Instead, somewhere between storms, campfires, arguments, and the dangerous freedom of being nobody, Ari begins to trust him.

Maybe even more than trust him.

But the farther they travel, the closer they come to the war Ari was trying to escape-and to the truth about the man walking beside her.

Because monsters are easy to fear when they exist only in stories.

They're much harder to understand once you know their name.