A reluctant king. A temporary guard. A threat neither can outrun.



The war might be over, but King Rian Dronias knows peace is fragile. He just didn't expect his biggest problem to arrive in the form of his new bodyguard.



When the captain of the King's Guard goes on his honeymoon, Rian reluctantly holds a competition to find a temporary replacement. The winner? Erualys Valora, a renowned warrior from a neighboring queendom with a reputation for being unstoppable . . . and insufferable. She's the last person he wants guarding him—and the only one bold enough to call him out when she discovers the threats he's been hiding.

But as danger closes in, the king and his temporary guard will have to face the truth: the deadliest risk might not be the assassins in the shadows, but the spark igniting between them.



Contains mature themes.