The Elf Queen's Choice

Aethera, last Starlight Elf queen, wields Star Speech. On her betrothal eve, she catches fiancé Cassian with cousin Maeve. She shreds the pact, defies her clan, and chooses scorned half-elf bastard Kaelen—secret Shadow King of the overseas Dark Court, who waited fifteen years.A star contract binds them as allies. He offers all. Cassian kneels; Maeve’s mask falls. At the Great Star Rite, a void rift opens. He shields her with blood; her Star Speech fuses their souls......