Alicia's marriage to Joshua was a sham. On their anniversary, drugged by honey wine, she stumbled into the wrong tower and spent the night with a stranger Caden, Joshua's older brother. The next day, she found Joshua had been cheating with Lilliana and filed for annulment. At the feast welcoming Caden home, she froze, he was the man from that night. He exposed Joshua's betrayal, slid a ring onto her finger, and offered a deal. Together, they crushed Lilliana's lies, exposed Joshua's embezzlement, and survived poison, drownings, and burns... Caden saved her every time. They fell hard, then broke over his fears. But when his admirer forced Alicia to kneel, Caden returned, punished the guilty, and proposed. They sent every enemy to the dungeons, won the crown's art prize, and held their child by the sea. She finally had a home.
