In a world where a woman's worth is measured by her family name, Lady Priscy Ergard has committed the one scandal her noble family cannot afford.She is unmarried, disgraced, and carrying the child of a man who abandoned her.Her father, Sir Edgar, a retired knight struggling to preserve his family's place in society, sees her pregnancy as a stain that could destroy them. He wants the child gone, but his wife, Lady Reeya, refuses to let him harm their daughter. Hidden away from society, Priscy gives birth to a beautiful baby boy—and learns to survive with the little family she has left.Then fate offers Sir Edgar an impossible opportunity.Prince Edmund, the King's second son, has fallen for a young lady he believes to be Sir Edgar's second daughter—Geerly, his niece. Edmund makes a bold declaration before the King: he will marry no one but her.But Edmund has been deceived.Before he can discover the truth, Geerly is sent away, and Priscy is forced into the wedding meant for another woman.On their wedding night, Edmund lifts his bride's veil and freezes.She is not Geerly.She is the disgraced daughter he never chose.Furious and humiliated, Edmund demands an annulment—but the King refuses. Edmund himself demanded Sir Edgar's second daughter, and now he must honor his word.Trapped in a marriage neither wanted, Edmund and Priscy become unwilling allies.But as hatred gives way to understanding, and understanding to an undeniable attraction, Edmund discovers that the woman he never chose may be the only woman he can never let go.And when society learns the truth about Priscy's child, Edmund must decide whether to protect his crown's reputation—or the family he never meant to have.

RAVETHORNEFor centuries, the Kingdom of Ravethorne has buried a truth so terrible that kings have murdered to protect it.Beyond the walls, something laughs in the darkness.Villages vanish overnight. Roads are littered with broken wagons and bleached bones. Travelers whisper of towering beasts that hunt with ruthless precision, remember every mistake, and never stop once they catch your scent.The Crown calls them myths.The nobility know better.As forgotten records resurface and ancient secrets claw their way into the light, the kingdom begins to fracture from within. A handful of ordinary souls find themselves drawn into a war that began long before they were born—a war born not of fate, but of mankind's own ambition.Some monsters are created.Others are inherited.And in Ravethorne...the greatest evil was never hiding in the forest.It was sitting on the throne.