If I Could Embrace The Sun

“Your duty is to appear before His Majesty the Emperor as the fiancée of the Grand Duke.”

A sudden fire and the disappearance of her family.

As Audrey is consumed by despair, an unexpected proposal is made…

To become the spark of revolution.

“You own nothing.”

Hearing those words by chance, rather than breaking her, gives Audrey courage.

In the end, she chooses to abandon herself,

Throwing everything into the stormy, winter sea.

To find her missing family, she takes the Grand Duke’s hand.

And the freedom she gains is far sweeter than expected.

A false identity, a false life, a false fiancé.

Yet it is far more liberating than the life she once knew.

“I must make myself useful.”

Lystan Clifford, the emperor’s half-brother and a prince of the colonies.

He places Audrey in the role of his fake fiancée to further his revolution.

His heart, once consumed solely by vengeance, begins to beat differently in her presence.

She was meant to be nothing more than a tool, yet his resolve falters.

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Icy blue eyes and mysterious golden ones.

The forsaken prince, Lystan Clifford.

He became the vast, devouring winter sea that swallowed her whole.

The discarded pawn, Audrey Eckborn.

Never once did she imagine she would become the only sun capable of melting his frozen life.