Corinne Vale
Corinne Vale
Three wives went north through the fire before her. None of them came back. Ilaria is the youngest daughter of a southern king with no use for daughters, and the lot has fallen to her. She is being sent north to marry the cold-blooded lord of the fae court, behind a wall of fire that has separated their kingdoms for two centuries. She doesn't intend to be furniture. She breaks into his treasury within a month and finds the boundary ledger - and her mother's name in it. Caelan doesn't punish her. He asks what she found. Together they learn the wall was never meant to protect the south from him. It was meant to protect the north from the kings who wanted to buy the fire. A dark enemies to lovers fantasy romance for readers who want their marriage-treaty book to end with a wedding on the ashes of the wall.