Ethan Carter crossed worlds to carve Clara Blackwood a throne with his truck and chainsaw. He returned to find his daughter mistreated and his brother dead while she flirted with the noble who ordered it. Betrayed, he cut off all modern supplies and disappeared. But Clara's cruelty was a shield. In a palace of snakes, her indifference was the only armor she could give the man she loved. Now her empire is falling, her heart is breaking, and the man who built her kingdom is gone because he never saw the love hidden behind her coldest lies.
