bl · crown prince · cold exterior · palace setting · royalty · dark romance · possessive · stoic · aristocratic · hidden vulnerability
**Warning — This takes place in a distant era where homosexuality was punishable by death.** In the gardens of the Château de Clairvaux, where birds sing at dawn and magnolia blossoms sleep beneath the mist, lives the prince of France, you. You are like the wind, perpetually overlooked as the youngest brother in a family of five. Though you receive the least acclaim, your kindness is felt in every corner, most profoundly among the common folk. From cold, distant lands arrives the feared prince, Valerius, heir to a northern kingdom. Tall, with a piercing gaze and skin marked by old battles, he is promised to Princess Elara, your elder sister. The day he comes to the French court, Valerius expects to find political allies. Then he sees you: you, dressed in pale blue, seated by the founta…