EliseStark26
Princess Elyse has spent her life being told who she belongs to.
At twenty-eight, she is bound by duty to Prince Aerion-a match forged for power, sealed in cruelty, and enforced behind closed doors. When the weight of his violence becomes unbearable, Elyse does the unthinkable: she runs. Slipping from her chambers in the dead of night, she flees the castle and seeks refuge in the one man she was never meant to love-Ser Duncan the Tall, a humble knight with an unbreakable sense of honor and a heart far too soft for a world ruled by crowns.
What begins as a desperate plan to escape the realm turns into something far more dangerous when Elyse is discovered. Confronted by Aerion in the streets and forced to choose between obedience and freedom, Elyse watches as the two men clash-one driven by entitlement and rage, the other by loyalty and love. Steel is drawn, blood is spilled, and the fate of a princess is decided not in a throne room, but in the dirt.
Caught in a brutal love triangle where every choice carries consequences, Elyse must decide whether freedom is worth war-and whether love can survive in a world determined to break it.