Description
Orgrek Duskbringer spent his life ending wars. After decades of blood, the legendary warlord did what no one believed possible: he traded conquest for peace and left his people a world with no war left to fight. But a legacy has to be inherited — and Orgrek’s son was born too strong to be loved. Morgreth is god-touched, a warrior whose power fills a room before he speaks a word, who has spent his entire life being feared rather than understood. When the fragile alliance his father bled for begins to strain, the burden of holding it together falls to the one heir no one is quite sure how to follow.
To seal the peace and silence the doubters, Morgreth is bound in an arranged marriage to Rissma Frostclaw — the Shadow Blade, a warrior renowned for precision, for taking no more than exactly enough. Neither of them chose this. Both of them understand what depends on it. As old grudges harden and enemies gather at the borders, two people trained their whole lives to be weapons must discover whether they can be something else to each other — and whether raw strength is enough to hold a world together. His father left him peace. The only question that matters is whether he can keep it.