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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

Rafael wanted to roll his eyes backward. But since he was in the company of so many royal women, he settled for rolling his eyes only halfway.

"Look, you can spot the whites of Sir Ralph's eyes!" Elowyn added. "The weather is really too hot."

"There are plenty of servants that would gladly hand you a parasol if you asked," Soleia pointed out reasonably. "If you truly find yourself uncomfortable, we have physicians in the castle from whom you could seek advice. You can head back to rest."

A hairline crack appeared in Elowyn's flawless composure at Soleia's response. A wiser person would have taken the hint to leave, yet Elowyn continued to persist.

"But I wish to support Orion. Our child would want to be here to witness his father's triumph in person," Elowyn said, as she bit her lower lip with such deliberate ease that Soleia guessed she must have practiced this expression in the mirror multiple times to deliver the best result.

Ensnaring Even Women