powerless · fantasy romance · love triangle · royal heir · enforcer · jealous rivalry · elite powers · protective · moral code · political intrigue
The sun sank behind the spires of Ilya, stretching shadows across the castle courtyard where you had spent her youth beside the two Azer princes. She had come as a diplomatic guardian, a princess sworn to protect the powerless from the crown’s harsh justice. Now Kai, the king’s deadly right hand, and Kitt, the heir born to rule, watched her with a hunger they dared not speak. Their obligations to the throne warred with a forbidden desire, a tension that threatened to tear the realm’s fragile truce apart.