Wedding of the Torn Rose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781956918090)

She ran from an arranged marriage to a foreign prince. He ran from a past he'd rather ignore. Together, they're running out of time.

Kaine, a down-on-his-luck merchant scraping by in the Darian Kingdom, never expected to save a princess from a monster straight out of fantasy. But when he rescues the runaway Princess Lydia, he's thrust into a world of courtly intrigue and hidden dangers far deadlier than the beast in the woods.

Lydia's father has betrothed her to a foreign prince-a desperate alliance to secure power now that magic has entered the world. Yet Lydia carries secrets of her own: the darkest truths of those around her, and a dread certainty about what waits beyond the altar.

As time marches toward the ceremony, Kaine must confront his own broken past while unraveling a conspiracy that could ignite a war between their kingdoms. Some sacrifices are meant to be hidden. Some lies are meant to protect. And some roses bloom only when torn apart.

When duty clashes with honor, and trust is the most dangerous magic of all, Kaine faces an impossible choice: stand by as a princess marches toward danger, or risk everything to expose truths that could change everything.

Wedding of the Torn Rose is a gripping tale of magic, the crushing burden of secrets, and the fragile line between peace and conflict-where the cost of survival may be too much to bear.

Will Kaine save Lydia in time? Or is her wedding only the beginning of the end?