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When powerless, unfavoured Princess Soleia was arranged to marry the newly titled Duke Orion Elsher, she assumed they would find love eventually.

Who knew that her father would send off her husband mere hours later to fight a war?

Soleia was left alone to deal with an impoverished fief, a crumbling estate, and spiteful, vindictive relatives of the Duke who all wished to see her gone. 

She couldn’t leave― there was nowhere else to go. Soleia desperately wanted her husband to return so he could offer her a helping hand. However, when he did, he returned with Elowyn, a woman he claimed was his true love. 

A woman hellbent on taking her place as the rightful Duchess, no matter what she had to do to get Soleia out of the way. 

Mistreated, misunderstood, and miserable, Soleia was eventually thrown out of the estate she helped build.

Fortunately, when one door closes, another one opens. Unknown to Soleia, a man more powerful than her husband had been watching her, waiting for the right time to snatch her into his gilded cage. Duke Elsher had been foolish to let go― but the crown prince of Raxuvia wouldn’t make the same mistake.

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Prequel to Stolen by the Rebel King.

The Hidden King's Stolen Wife

Prince Florian, Prince Reitan, and the two guards' eyes widened in a mixture of horror, awe, and disbelief. Snow fell from the sky as the surrounding temperature dropped by several degrees, creating a bone-chilling cold to surround everyone even with their thick furs and clothing.

In the shape of a crescent, a semi-circle of ice spikes had sprouted from the ground, its sharp and jagged rips pointed straight for the guard and Florian. The layer of ice glistened, a thin layer of mist surrounding it.

Soleia's shoulder lifted and dropped as she breathed heavily, staring at the scene before her. She was equally shocked, but she didn't spare a single second, not when she could still feel magic dancing at her fingertips.

While she wasn't sure what happened and how it happened, Soleia knew she didn't have the time to study that now. What she needed was to get Reitan out of there.

Strange Instinct II