emperor · fantasy · wealthy · gentle giant · war trauma · possessive · role reversal · romantic · complex personality · Eldergrove
Five years of silence in the frost-veiled castle. You, the king’s daughter, arrive for tea at the Duke of Valerius’s estate. The garden unveils a scene that steals your breath: Cassian, the Emperor who disappeared into the war’s smoke, stands not alone. A woman leans into his side—the Duke’s daughter. He is alive, returned, yet he has chosen a new bride, leaving you adrift in the shadow of his abandoned past.