{"product_id":"king-lily-p-archer-9798277067956","title":"King: New Astral Order: Tessa Bloom and Arenap Hatcher","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKING: NEW ASTRAL ORDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomeone tried to murder his entire family. He survived to become King. Then fate finally gave him a mate-and she belonged to someone else.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArenap Hatcher\u003c\/b\u003e never wanted to become King this way. His family was supposed to rule beside him. Advise him. Annoy him. Help him build a future for their people.\u003cbr\u003eThen someone tried to kill them all.\u003cbr\u003eArenap survived.\u003cbr\u003eNow he wears a crown forged from betrayal and grief while rebuilding a fractured Astral Order and hunting whoever targeted his family. Love isn't even on the list.\u003cbr\u003eThen he meets\u003cb\u003e Tessa Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e. And feels \u003cb\u003ethe Zing\u003c\/b\u003e-the unmistakable connection between Vanguardian fated mates. For one impossible moment, Arenap thinks fate has finally given him something instead of taking it away.\u003cbr\u003eThen he sees the ring.\u003cbr\u003eHis fated mate is married to someone else.\u003cbr\u003eOf course she is.\u003cbr\u003eTessa's life isn't exactly going according to plan either.\u003cbr\u003eHer marriage began as a practical arrangement between two people who hoped affection, partnership, and children would grow into a family. Instead, after three devastating miscarriages, the dream has crumbled. Her husband has turned away, her marriage exists mostly on paper, and Tessa is left wondering what she's supposed to do with a future that suddenly looks nothing like the one she planned.\u003cbr\u003eThen her widowed mother falls in love and announces she's moving away.\u003cbr\u003ePerfect.\u003cbr\u003eNo husband who seems to want her. No babies. Soon, no mother nearby. At this point, buying a yurt and disappearing into the wilderness is beginning to sound surprisingly reasonable.\u003cbr\u003eThen she meets Arenap. The mysterious businessman is powerful, intimidating, infuriatingly attentive. And looking at her as though she's simultaneously the best and worst thing that's ever happened to him.\u003cbr\u003eTessa has no idea he's a King. She's never even heard of Vanguardians. She only knows there's something between them she can't explain.\u003cbr\u003eA pull.\u003cbr\u003eA connection.\u003cbr\u003eA feeling that meeting him has changed everything.\u003cbr\u003eArenap knows exactly what it is. And he also knows Tessa is married. He may be King, but there are some lines even a king refuses to cross. So he keeps his distance. Or tries to.\u003cbr\u003eUnfortunately, assassins, traitors, and a kingdom balanced on the edge of chaos have other plans.\u003cbr\u003eAs Arenap hunts whoever targeted his family, Tessa is drawn deeper into a hidden world of ancient bloodlines and dangerous secrets-and closer to the man who makes her wonder if the future she thought she'd lost might not be the only future available to her.\u003cbr\u003eBut the Zing doesn't make Tessa his.\u003cbr\u003eHer choices are still her own.\u003cbr\u003eArenap can fight assassins. Expose traitors. Rebuild a kingdom.\u003cbr\u003eBut he won't claim a woman who isn't free to choose him.\u003cbr\u003eAnd Tessa has choices of her own to make-about a marriage that has already broken her heart, the family she still desperately wants, and a man who is offering her something she stopped believing belonged to her.\u003cbr\u003eHope.\u003cbr\u003eAs the conspiracy against the Hatcher family closes in, Arenap and Tessa must decide whether two lives shattered by loss can become something neither of them dared imagine.\u003cbr\u003eArenap thought fate had screwed him over one more time.\u003cbr\u003eTessa thought her future was gone.\u003cbr\u003eThey may both be wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKING: NEW ASTRAL ORDER\u003c\/i\u003e is a slow-burn science-fiction\/paranormal romance featuring a powerful King, an unavailable fated mate, forbidden love, yearning, protective hero, family dreams, starting over, duty versus desire, political intrigue, assassination and betrayal, the Zing, and a guaranteed HEA.\u003cbr\u003eKING is a standalone romance in the interconnected Vanguardians series. Tessa and Arenap get their happily-ever-after, so you can begin here. Want the complete Vanguardian experience? Start with \u003ci\u003eNOMAD: FORSAKEN LORIAN\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lily P. Archer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798277067956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Lily P. 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