Bella
She was never supposed to be the bride.
Isolde Verrian has spent her life invisible — the daughter no one wanted, doing the work no one thanked her for. When the King of Morvane demands a sacrifice to end a hundred-year war, her family doesn't hesitate to offer up the daughter they can afford to lose.
So Isolde takes her sister's name. And walks straight into the hands of a man rumored to have buried three brides before her.
He finds out immediately. He keeps her anyway.
King Kaelen Vane was never supposed to want a substitute. But the moment he realizes the woman in front of him isn't the bride he was promised, he makes a choice no one expects — least of all Isolde.
He doesn't send her back.
Now she's trapped in a court built on fear, married to a man whose reputation might not be the whole truth — and might still be dangerous enough to kill her. To survive, Isolde will have to uncover exactly what happened to the queens who came before her.
Before she becomes the next name no one speaks of again.
A stolen name. A dangerous king. A bride who was never supposed to be his — and now can't imagine being anyone else's.
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