He hides his face to win wars. She was born to see how they end. Lucien Valemont is Kaldora’s most feared general, a royal son the palace never wanted, who fights behind a demon mask because his face is too beautiful to frighten anyone. When a storm drives him into a hidden mountain village, he meets Wren Snowe, a reckless, brilliant girl whose blind grandmother delivers a warning: Lucien will die within a year, and Wren must never love him. She goes after him anyway. Wren is rumored to be the Oracle, and legend says whoever holds her will rule the continent. That makes her the most hunted woman alive. Ulric Vance, the cunning emperor of the enemy nation, wants her for his crown, then simply wants her. Back home, Lucien’s jealous cousin is one dark night away from seizing the throne. Between two kingdoms, two men, and one prophecy, Wren has a single question left: can love rewrite a fate that has already been written? A sweeping modern romance of war, betrayal, and the lengths we go to for the people we refuse to lose.

On our seventh wedding anniversary, my husband let his mistress slap me with a seven-million-dollar check. “A million for every year you couldn’t give him a child.” Her pregnancy test was fake. The baby growing inside me was real. For seven years, I had saved Lucien Valemont’s life, endured his family’s cruelty, and called it love. Then his divorce papers revealed the truth: the woman they treated like a charity case was the heiress they had been robbing all along. When I uncovered the secret behind my first miscarriage, they tried to make sure I never had another child. They almost succeeded. Five years later, I return to the mansion they threw me out of—as their largest creditor. His mistress wants me gone. His family wants my fortune. My ex-husband wants forgiveness. And none of them knows about the little boy waiting for me at home. Lucien once paid me to disappear. Now he’s about to discover what losing me really costs.

When a storm washes a sealed bottle onto the shore, Mara finds a note inside in Eli's handwriting, dated only two months ago. Convinced he's alive, she starts searching the old smuggling caves beneath the cliffs. Tobias, needing her cooperation for his survey, reluctantly helps. Together they uncover a hidden network that has been using the lighthouse signals to guide illegal cargo ships, and Eli may have been part of it. Mara must decide whether to expose the truth, which would save the lighthouse but condemn her brother, or protect Eli and lose the only home she has left.