Crimson Ghungroo

He made kingdoms laugh while quietly watching them burn.
Princess Meher of Sharad arrives at the glittering Spring Court expecting politics, diplomacy, and another prison dressed as a palace.

Instead, she finds Aariz.

The king's treasured entertainer.
A poet wrapped in silk and scandal.
A man who dances like mockery and smiles like sin.
Everywhere he goes, crimson threads and silver ghungroos follow - warnings of secrets, ruin, and rebellion.

The court calls him a fool.
Meher quickly realizes fools do not look at people the way Aariz does.
Because beneath the music, beneath the performances, beneath the sharp-tongued laughter hiding dangerous truths, the Spring Kingdom is rotting.

And Aariz may be the only man clever enough to destroy it.
Or save it.