Duty raised these walls around my heart.
Now I can’t stop tearing them down for her.
A king’s missing advisor drops an impossible case into my lap: find the truth before an entire noble house collapses.
What I don’t expect is her.
A servant with steady hazel eyes who refuses to flinch in front of nobility, who answers every question with a truth no one else dares speak.
She’s supposed to be a witness. Nothing more.
Instead, she becomes the only person who looks past the heir and finds the man underneath. Between the forged letters, buried bodies, and a conspiracy older than either of us knows, I stop trying to protect her from the danger…
And start trying to protect myself from how much I need her.
Eight centuries of unbroken loyalty rest on my shoulders.
I was never supposed to be reckless enough to fall for a servant girl.
She never asks me to choose.
I choose her anyway.
Read on if you love a duty-bound noble who can’t stay away from the one woman he was told he could never have, a slow burn simmering with stolen glances and secrets neither of them can afford to keep, and a payoff that is worth all the tension. HEA guaranteed.