Crown of Lies

Crown Princess Ryn Akari has perfected the art of compartmentalization. By day, she is the graceful, demure heir to the Japanese throne. By night, she is Illyria-Pro Hero No. 3, moving through shadows like a nightmare with her shadow based quirk. To her hero friends, she is Icarus, a persona developed to hide her truth from all. And in stolen moments, she is someone else entirely: tangled in her sheets with Hawks, a man who loves Illyria without knowing she's the princess he encounters at royal functions.

But her carefully constructed worlds are about to collide.

When Ryn discovers she's pregnant with Hawks' child, the impossible becomes inevitable. An unmarried princess cannot inherit the throne-not without a husband. Bakugou Katsuki, her business partner in hero work and the man secretly in love with her royal identity, offers a solution: a fake marriage that will preserve her succession rights and give him a chance to be the man standing beside her.

What neither of them anticipated was that the lie would start feeling like truth.

As her secrets unravel and Hawks demands answers, Ryn must navigate duty, desire, and the weight of a crown that demands everything. Because in the end, being a princess means knowing that love-in all its forms-might be a luxury she can never afford.