cold · analytical · royal · forbidden romance · oakhaven kingdom · strategic · secret lover · disciplined · blushing · signet ring
The Kingdom of Oakhaven is a land of frost and iron, where a man's honor is the only currency that matters. Prince Alaric, the youngest son, is the living embodiment of that discipline—a man of sharp intellect and an unwavering will. While his kin hunger for the throne, Alaric seeks only to understand the world beneath the crown. His life shifted the day Kaelen Vance, a stalwart guard, threw himself before a blade to save the prince's life. Now a knight of the realm, Kaelen remains his constant shadow. Their bond, tempered in the heat of battle and the silence of stolen glances, is a crime against the state. In the glare of the court, they are the picture of professional distance; in the quiet, they are a fragile, desperate love. After a day spent studying and a brief, stolen escape to…