34 parts Complete In the moonlit kingdom of Lunaris, emotions are buried beneath layers of silence and duty. Among its pale spires and silver gardens lives Princess Lirael Nocturne, the heir to a throne sculpted from ice and expectation. Born with a face that never smiles and a heart that has never stirred, she is the perfect daughter of a kingdom that fears feeling.
Princes from every corner of the continent come to win her hand-but none can melt her cold indifference. For Lirael, love is a word spoken often but never understood. She once asked her mother what happiness felt like. The answer never came.
But when two new royal guards arrive-young men from a distant village-and a soft-spoken maid with warm hands is assigned to serve her, the silent world Lirael has always known begins to tremble.
Among them is Caelan Thorne, a loyal guard whose heart belongs to another-his childhood friend Selene, now the princess's maid. Selene, however, has eyes only for someone else: Rowan, the charming second guard who doesn't know how much she's always meant to her.
And in the quiet spaces between duty and longing, Lirael begins to feel something unfamiliar.
Something warm.
Something painful.
Something that just might be love.