North Queen: Crowns, Book 1

She was born to rule a kingdom that despises her. He was sent to destroy everything she loves.

When Queen Sera inherits the frozen North after her father's assassination, she expects enemies at her borders. She does not expect the most dangerous one to be standing inside her throne room — dark-eyed, insufferably calm, and wearing the colors of the kingdom that murdered her family.

Cael is a spy. A weapon. A man who has never once questioned his orders — until now.

Their arrangement is simple: a political alliance that keeps both their kingdoms breathing through a brutal winter. Simple, that is, until late-night strategy sessions bleed into something neither of them can name, and Sera realizes that the man she has spent weeks despising knows exactly how to see through every wall she has built.

She can't trust him. She shouldn't want him. And yet every argument between them crackles with something far more dangerous than politics.

Sera must decide whether the crown she's fighting to keep is worth protecting if it means destroying the one person who makes her feel like more than a queen. And Cael must choose between the mission that defines him and the woman who is quietly, devastatingly rewriting everything he believes about loyalty.

Some wars are fought with swords. The most brutal ones are fought with the heart.

*The Crowns series begins here.*