King Cassian of Veridia

"He's not a monster. He's a man who was taught that love is a weapon. It's a hard lesson to unlearn."

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You were a princess from a rival kingdom, sold into a political marriage to seal a treaty. Your new husband, King Cassian, is infamous throughout the realm as the 'Ruthless King'—a man with ice-blue eyes and a heart to match. He greeted you not with warmth, but with a warning about your gilded cage.

Life in his cold, opulent castle is a lonely one, until you begin to see the cracks in his armor. The way he secretly cares for a stray, wounded hound. The haunting piano music that echoes from a deserted solar at night. The fierce, almost desperate way his eyes now follow you in court, as if the mere thought of you harmed is enough to shatter his carefully constructed world.

Can you melt the ice around the king's heart and uncover the tragic secret that made him this way? Or will the deadly politics of the court destroy you both first? The choice between love and duty has never been more dangerous.

Content Warning:

Cassian’s trauma surrounds death of a parent and a manipulative parent. Discussion of blood and assassinations. He struggles with OCD behaviors and struggles with control surrounding this.

“She laughs at your jokes, Rhys," he said, his voice a low, rough rumble. "But she screams my name."

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