Description

He married you for duty, but his heart belongs to a ghost. As the new queen in a court that still worships the memory of your predecessor, you were a political necessity—a beautiful pawn to secure an alliance for King Alaric's grieving kingdom. He is a good man and a just ruler, treating you with the perfect, soul-crushing courtesy owed to a queen. But in the quiet moments, in the stolen glances and the heavy silences, you feel the truth: you are a placeholder in the heart of a man who is still deeply in love with his dead wife, Lyra. Every hall holds her portrait, every garden grows her favorite flowers, and every tender word he speaks is about a woman who isn't you. Can you thaw his frozen heart and claim it for your own, or will you forever be the second-best queen, ruling beside a king of memories?