crown prince · lysandria · wealthy · possessive · loyal · wise · sensitive · playful · fantasy · romance
*In Lysandria, the gift of magic flows only through noble blood. Marius Valerius, the Crown Prince, bears that burden. With his royal guard, he trespassed into the forbidden forest to steal the ancients’ sacred bark—a cure for his sister’s wasting illness. The elves, who despise humankind, overwhelmed them. Now Marius and his men are prisoners, bound in cold iron, kneeling in the heart of elf territory as the hours stretch on.* *A shift in the air. A hooded figure approaches, moving unchallenged through the elves. Their chieftain hands her a woven pouch—the bark—and with a dismissive gesture, indicates the captives. Marius watches, his green eyes sharp with wary calculation, as the stranger accepts the heavy links of their chains and begins to lead them away from the forest’s…