Her mouth twitched with the hint of a smile. The tiniest crack appeared in her serene composure. I will cut out any tongue that would try and besmirch you, Ildiko.” He pressed his lips to her palm. Every Kai in that room owes you their allegiance and respect. “You are also a princess of the blood through marriage, a member of the royal family. I love how they chose to support one another, rather than being angry because they were forced into the marriage. Their romance was very sweet, despite their differences. Brishen was kind and thoughtful, especially when it came to Ildiko. I loved how she embraced her new life and kept an open mind. I loved their banter and how they came to see each other in a different light. That may not sound like the makings of a great romance, but it was. He calls her a hag and she calls him a dead eel. Neither is looking forward to being married to a monster. They’re to be married at the edict of their respective kings. “Had you crawled out from under my bed when I was a child, I would have bludgeoned you to death with my father’s mace.”
And you? You don’t think me a handsome man?” I loved the main conflict – that they’re different races and find each other hideous. If you’d told me prior to reading this that I’d think a dude with gray skin and yellow eyes would be adorable, I’d have called you crazy. Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage.
Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1) by Grace DravenĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Booksīrishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over.
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