Beschrijving
When the war ends, peace does not come.
It lingers like smoke—soft, choking, impossible to forget.
Thalen, the soldier who once defied his king and survived the ruin of two realms, now lives as a healer among the ashes. He has lost his title, his comrades, and the man he once loved more than life itself.
The world calls him a hero.
He calls himself a ghost.
But fate, unkind as ever, brings him a new visitor—a foreign prince named Eiran of Vareen, sent to negotiate peace in the kingdom that once burned his own. Gentle where the fallen king was fierce, idealistic where war once demanded cruelty, Eiran sees through Thalen’s silence and the sorrow behind his calm.
Their meeting is not meant to be love.
It begins as gratitude, soft and uncertain, between two survivors trying to remember how to breathe.
Yet in quiet evenings by candlelight, in the gardens rebuilt where soldiers once bled, something fragile begins to bloom.
Thalen wants to believe he can live again.
Eiran wants to prove that peace can still be kind.
But shadows do not vanish—they remember.
The ghost of the fallen king still haunts them both, not as vengeance but as memory. His name, spoken in whispers, still divides the court. His death still demands answers.
And when remnants of the old war rise again—loyalists who refuse to let the past die—Thalen must decide whether to defend the prince he has begun to love, or the kingdom that never loved him back.
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