When the Kingdom Burns

✦ TEASER ✦

"Adhivan, stop!"

The sword froze.

Slowly, the king turned toward the voice he hadn't heard in ten years.

Saranya stood across the burning throne room.

His eyes found hers.

And for the first time that night, the man who had brought an entire kingdom to its knees went still.

"Adi..."

His jaw hardened.

"Don't call me that."

Her eyes filled with tears.

"You came back."

A bitter smile touched his lips.

"I promised I would, Kanmani."

She looked around at her burning home.

"Not like this."

His smile disappeared.

"Neither did you."

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✦ BLURB ✦

Ten years ago, Saranya Rajvanshi, Princess of Kashwara, watched her childhood best friend leave her palace believing she had betrayed him.

Now Adhivan Veeraraj has returned.

Not as the sixteen-year-old prince she once knew, but as the feared Maharaja of Thanjora-with an army behind him and revenge on his mind.

He believes her family destroyed his.

She doesn't even know what she did to make him hate her.

And neither of them knows that the truth buried between their kingdoms could change everything.

Childhood friends. Bitter enemies. One unfinished past.

And perhaps a love that never truly died.

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