River Meets the Sun (The Artist Rendition) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9786218431102)

They call me Anini, the Jewel of Hamtic. A daughter of the river, a promise of the kingdom.

All my life, I have been told that peace demands obedience, that love is a luxury for lesser hearts. But when my father, the Datu of Tinigbasan, forges a truce sealed by blood and duty, he sends me a shield instead of a suitor-a man of few words and impossible eyes, a warrior who wields the sun.

From the moment he kneels before me, the world is never the same again.

They call me Nogas, a warrior of Kalisidlan. I was born of stone and silence. A weapon, a servant, nothing more.

But when I am sent to guard the princess of Tinigbasan, I learned that devotion can wound deeper than any blade. She is everything I was told not to want-but the first touch of her voice feels like sunlight breaking through a mountain.

I swore to protect her. I never meant to love her.