The Joker & The Queen
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She was a princess trained to be perfect. He was a stranger who looked at her like she was the only real thing in a room full of pretending.
One masked man at a midnight festival. One playing card left on her windowsill. One message: the choice is yours entirely.
But choices have a way of being made for you - by fathers with arrangements, by arrows that find the wrong target, and by kings who say yes before you finish asking.
Seraphine Valdris spent five years behind academy walls learning how to be someone's wife. She never learned how to be someone's equal.
She's about to find out there's a difference.
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