One of the fiercest
soldiers the Phrixians have ever produced, Maris Sulle has been an
outsider the whole of his life. He grew up with a secret that cost him
everything- His birthright, his family and his military career. In all
his life, he’s only had one love and he has sacrificed his own happiness
to see his best friend reunited with the woman he loves. But now that
his good deed is done, he feels lost and adrift. Even though they do
their best to include him in their new family, he’s once again on the
outside looking in.
Ture has spent his life hiding from everyone
around him while trying desperately to fit in. His family, the world,
you name it. Badly hurt by everyone he’s ever known, he trusts no one
except his own best friend. And honestly, he can’t understand why he
trusts her. Nor can he believe her when she describes a loyalty between
friends the likes of which he’s never seen.
But when he is in his
darkest hour, he’s saved by a hero he thought only existed in novels. A
man who is every bit as scarred and mistrusting as he is. One who has
no interest in being dragged into another relationship with anyone.
Having
spent his life as a living study of doomed relationships, Maris is well
aware of the courtship and fiasco that invariably follows. Still, there
is something about Ture he can’t resist. Something that won’t let him
walk away when he knows he should.
But when old enemies return to threaten them both, they either have to stand together or die alone.