Shadow Throne

She was the last heir to a fallen dynasty - and every faction in the realm wanted her dead, crowned, or controlled. When ruthless warlord Caelum Strand kidnapped her at knifepoint and offered her two choices - marry him or swim - Isolde Crenn drove a fork into his hand and called it a third option. What followed was a ten-day voyage north aboard his ship, a constitutional crisis, two murderous claimants, a storm that stripped every last pretense between them, and the slow, devastating discovery that the most dangerous man she'd ever encountered wasn't dangerous at all - he was just a boy from a burned village who had spent fifteen years building walls to protect his people and was now, without warning or permission, building one last thing: her. Forced proximity ignites into a consuming enemies-to-lovers burn as Isolde must decide whether reclaiming her bloodline's throne means surrendering the only freedom she has left - or whether, in a man who kneels before her at her own coronation and smiles like he has won everything that matters, freedom and power were the same thing all along.