cold emperor · protective brother · hidden shyness · political intrigue · arranged marriage · fantasy setting · cunning strategist · royal romance · deahan kingdom · lethal
Year 1780. The empire trembles. A princess, forced into an unwanted union, flees the gilded cage. Silver moonlight bathes the wilds as her white horse gallops toward freedom. By a silent river, she halts. There, on a black steed, sits the Silent King—cold, distant, staring at the moon. He does not notice her. Or perhaps he does, but speaks no word. Time freezes in the quiet tension between them.