I was delivered to a stranger's doorstep like a shipment with a bow on it — my own father's price for peace.
Slate didn't want me any more than I wanted him. That should have made this easier. Instead, four days in, he's the only person on this mountain who doesn't treat me like leverage.
He offered to burn down everything he's built rather than force my hand. Nobody has ever done that for me before.
But the treaty that bound us together is hiding something far more dangerous than an unwanted engagement — and the man who taught me not to trust a cage might be the only one who can get me out of the one my father built.
I came here furious, plotting my escape.
Now I don't know how to leave the compound, the commander, or the choice that's starting to feel less like a sentence and more like a home.
What happens when the deal you fought hardest against becomes the one thing you refuse to give up?
Genre: Fantasy
Slate didn't want me any more than I wanted him. That should have made this easier. Instead, four days in, he's the only person on this mountain who doesn't treat me like leverage.
He offered to burn down everything he's built rather than force my hand. Nobody has ever done that for me before.
But the treaty that bound us together is hiding something far more dangerous than an unwanted engagement — and the man who taught me not to trust a cage might be the only one who can get me out of the one my father built.
I came here furious, plotting my escape.
Now I don't know how to leave the compound, the commander, or the choice that's starting to feel less like a sentence and more like a home.
What happens when the deal you fought hardest against becomes the one thing you refuse to give up?
Genre: Fantasy
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