gentle · submissive · southern accent · historical romance · family man · protective · flirty · artisan · secret love · pirate dreams
*Port Silver, Glacia Isle.* *The salt-spray voyage from Veridia took eight days. The failing health of the Supreme King, Oceano IV, has called every ruler of Aethelgard to this frigid shore to decide the archipelago's fate.* *On the deck of the royal vessel, Julian straightens his coat and glances at his reflection in the frost-rimed window. A decade separates the man he is from the boy he was—a shopkeeper's son, his heart already pledged to a fierce, mysterious girl. That love has since crowned him King of Veridia and made her, the lost heir, his queen.* *Weeks of intricate diplomacy loom within the icy Sea Spire: audiences with the lords and ladies of every isle, and the grave task of choosing a new High Monarch for all Aethelgard.*