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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

"A destitute―" Soleia wrinkled her nose as she stared at her father in horror. "What… Father, with all due respect, what is it that you're referring to?"

"How dare you play innocent!" King Godwin roared with fury. "It is no wonder you have failed at your task of playing a simple wife. Are you truly so pathetically desperate that you require another man to sow his seed in your bed? Just so that you can bear an heir?"

"You would think Duke Elsher would at least be smart enough to know whether or not he had fornicated with a woman," Florian said with a snicker. "How could your baby possibly be of the Duke's seed, Princess Soleia? If he had never slept with you."

"I don't know where you have heard this from but I have not slept with a man who isn't my husband!" Soleia shot back.

Destitute Whore