"A wonderful story with everything — mystery, treachery, loyalty, and love." — 5-Star Goodreads Review
A love tested by distance, duty, and the weight of a crown.
She was born to wear the crown. He never expected it to take her from him.
After surviving exile and danger together, Princess Elena Vinteren returns to Edelreich — not as a fugitive, but as the future queen her people desperately need. The moment she steps onto Edelreich soil, duty closes around her like armor.
And Jonathan watches her vanish across an ocean.
He never cared for privilege or rank. He cared for Elena — her laughter, her courage, the quiet moments they fought so hard to earn. But now, shouldering the weight of a kingdom alone, she is becoming someone shaped by a world he cannot touch. With an ocean between them and only silence where her letters should be, he begins to fear the crown is taking more than her time.
It may be taking her entirely. And breathing without her feels impossible.
As unrest rises and enemies circle Edelreich, two people who chose each other against every obstacle must now decide what love is worth — when duty demands everything and distance makes the answer impossible to hear.
A sweeping historical romance of love divided, loyalties tested, and the making of a queen.
Book Two in the Edelreich Chronicles. For readers who love emotional historical romance with high stakes and deeply human characters.
This is a wonderful story, it has everything. Mystery, treachery, treason, reward for loyalty, respect and love. Really, there is much more to this story, some of it true. The year of the cold or the year without a summer because of the eruption of Mt. Tambora.