In the Southern Continent, princesses are collected, traded, and consumed. Princess Zaria survives by making herself small. She is nothing more than a “diminished” royal with a pretty face and a quiet brother, Zakai, who shadows her like a blade. But Zaria carries a secret. She dreams things that haven’t happened. Her dreams always begin the same way. A valley of corpses, a beast closing in, and a golden-eyed knight who looks at her like he’s been waiting a lifetime to find her. Then the nightmare becomes real. When Prince Callen of the Western Dragon Kingdom arrives, he isn’t just a guest at her father’s table, he’s the man from her visions. Dangerous. Infuriating. Magnetic. A prince with dragon fire in his blood and control carved into his bones… until Zaria cracks straight through it. One touch turns into a spark neither of them can afford. Because Zaria isn’t free to want anyone. And Callen isn’t free to take her. The moment politics notices what’s burning between them: Zaria is promised away, sold with a bride price, to a powerful elf lord who offers safety wrapped in velvet and vows. Callen, meanwhile, is shackled to his own fate: an engagement to a wealthy merchant’s daughter whose cruelty wears silk and smiles. A marriage meant to protect the crown… and destroy everything Callen actually cares about. Now Zaria stands between two futures: A calm, careful alliance that could keep her alive. A dragon prince who would tear the world apart before he lets her be taken. With forbidden love, slow-burn tension, court intrigue, and a heroine whose hidden power could change the fate of kingdoms, The Fallen Princess is a lush fantasy romance novel about survival, devotion, and the kind of love that doesn’t ask permission. It claims, it burns, and it doesn’t let go.

The siege has been broken but the war has not ended. In the wake of blood and fire, Zaria is no longer just the fallen princess the world whispers about. She is a woman who has stood on a battlefield, broken ancient oaths with her light, and chosen action over safety even when the cost was her own marriage. The kingdom now watches her as closely as it watches the crown. Callen’s loyalty has never wavered, but love forged in peace is tested differently in war. As Christian moves to consolidate power and reshape the realm, alliances fracture, old grudges resurface, and the fragile balance between dragons, elves, and humans threatens to collapse. Gulshan has retreated, not defeated, his forces regrouping, his influence lingering in men still marked by red eyes and broken wills. Time has been bought, not peace. And at the center of it all is a child who carries the blood of three worlds, a living symbol of unity—or a spark that could ignite everything. Bound by love. Unbound by duty. The crown is rising. And every choice now carries a cost.

This is The Beta's Blood, rewritten with additional chapters: Ace’s voice trembled, a fragile whisper on the winter air. “Please… no.” The words barely escaped her lips as she clung to her best friend Emily, their arms bound together like lifelines in a storm. Tears tracked down Ace’s face, glistening in the cold. The world had gone unnaturally still. Each heartbeat thundered in Ace’s ears, a desperate reminder that she was still alive, even as her heart began to die. Jameson’s gaze found hers across the clearing. Eyes heavy with regret, the kind that carved through the soul. She saw herself reflected there. The fracture, the unraveling, the ruin. “I’m so sorry, Ace,” he whispered, but his apology was lost to the wind, swallowed by the icy weight of Alpha Kaine’s presence. “Get on with it, Jameson,” Alpha Kaine barked at his son, his tone slicing through the silence like a blade. Ace’s father stood nearby, stoic and merciless, as if carved from stone. Forced to bear witness to the heart wrenching breaking of a sacred bond. “I… I, Jameson of the Red Forest Pack...” “Say it correctly, boy!” Kaine’s roar shook the earth. “Or I’ll kill the girl where she stands!” The snow trembled beneath Ace’s feet. Her father’s wolf surged forward, protective and instinctive, but he wrestled it back, trembling with the effort. Jameson swallowed hard, voice cracking as he obeyed. “I, Jameson Leason, future Alpha of the Red Forest Pack, reject you, Ace Harbor, as my mate… and as my future Luna.” The words struck her like lightning. Pain ripped through her chest, wild and consuming, a fire that devoured from the inside out. Her knees gave way, and the world tilted. The snow bit into her skin as she fell, the cold and the agony indistinguishable. She bit down on her lip until she tasted blood, metallic and real, the only proof that she wasn’t dreaming. The scream clawing at her throat, never made it out.

“Please no.” I pleaded softly, my best friend Emily holding me tightly with tears in her eyes. “I’m so sorry Ace,” Jameson pauses and looks at me heartbroken. “Get on with it Jameson.” Alpha Tylon orders. Both our fathers are present making certain the bond we share is severed. “I, Jameson of the Red Forest pack…" “Stop wasting time and say it right or I’ll kill the girl!” Alpha Tylon roared. I could see fear flash through my fathers eyes, pulling his wolf forward momentarily but he recovered quickly. “I Jameson Lake, future Alpha of Red Forest Pack reject you, Ace Harbor as my mate and future Luna.” Pain hits me and spreads through my body like a fire, it drops me to my knees and I bite my lip until it bleeds to keep myself from screaming. My father steps towards me and Emily steps away. He pulls me from the ground,“Accept it Ace. Let’s be done with this.” He says sternly. “I, Ace Harbor, accept your rejection.” I breathe out through the pain, never looking up. I just watch the blood from my lip trickle into the snow turning its color. I hear Jameson struggling against the pain as I’m quickly pulled from the scene by my father.

Valencia is a witch who's mother married into a pack. She struggles to find her place in high school and deals with her fair share of hardships and when she finds her mate after graduation it is no exception. She moves on and creates a life all her own only to be thrown back into the same situation she fought so desperately to leave. Will she overcome her circumstance and will she ever be able to accept the love she was fated with?

Donavan notices the silent tears falling down her cheeks and his heart twists in agony. He wants to reach out and comfort her, but he knows that would only make her feel worse. “What do we do now?” She asks looking up into his eyes for the first time since talking. “We need to reject the bond between us,” he tells her and she nods looking back down at the ground. “Would you like to say the words first?” He asks, “It may hurt you less that way.” He tells her and she shakes her head. “My father told me turning your back on the moon Goddess’s gifts are never rewarded.” She pauses for a moment before continuing, “Although I am accepting the choice you made, it’s not the choice I would have made . . . I would’ve chosen you.” Her words devastate Donavan and shatter his resolve. “Charli maybe there's still a chan-” “No,” She interrupts “I don’t want to drag this out even longer.” “Alright then . . .” Donavan says breaking, “I Donavan Stolen, future Alpha of Silver Moon reject Charli Timbers as my mate and future Luna.” He says and a sharp pain rips through Charli. She clenches her teeth to suppress the sob that tries to escape her lips, and her hands move to her chest in a failed attempt to stop the pain. Seeing the pain she is in; Donavan reaches out to help her “Don’t” she hisses through the pain. She closes her eyes and breathes deeply for a few moments, then begins to speak without ever opening her eyes. “I Charli Timbers accept Donavan Stolens rejection.”