His Crown Her Heart

Feared by his enemies. Pitied by his kingdom. Hidden behind iron and gold, King Alaric has spent most of his life watching people recoil from the face disease stole from him.

Leprosy is slowly killing him, and with every passing season, the pressure to produce an heir grows stronger. The kingdom stands on the edge of instability, surrounded by ambitious nobles waiting for the young king to die without a successor so they can tear the crown apart.

But no noblewoman wishes to marry the cursed king.

Until her.

Lady Eveline was never meant to stand beside a throne. Gentle-hearted and stubbornly compassionate, she sees beyond the scars, beyond the mask, beyond the whispers surrounding the king. Where others see a dying monster, she sees a lonely man carrying the weight of an entire kingdom on failing shoulders.

Drawn together by duty, desperation, and a fragile tenderness neither expected, Alaric and Eveline are forced into a marriage that begins as necessity-but slowly becomes something far more dangerous.

Because loving a king marked by death comes with a cost.

As political enemies circle the crown and time slips through Alaric's fingers, the two must navigate betrayal, war, and the terrifying reality that the kingdom's future depends on the child they may never have.

But for the first time in his cursed life, the king finds himself wanting more than an heir.

He wants to be loved before he dies.