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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

"Excuse me?" Soleia spluttered. Only the shocked faces of the guards proved that she was not alone in experiencing a certain type of auditory hallucination. "Orion, you must be mistaken."

Orion, her current husband, had all but implied that he wanted to marry her!

Soleia pinched herself, and let out a tiny hiss as the sharp pain had forced her to accept that she had not been imagining things in her illness.

Orion's head whipped around and he caught sight of the new red mark on her skin. He let out a displeased huff and turned his ire on the intruders.

"Are all of you hard of hearing?" He demanded crossly. "I did not realize King Godwin employed nitwits. I will be marrying Princess Soleia during the wedding."

A Serious Man