The Hidden King's Stolen Wife
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. *** Prequel to Stolen by the Rebel King.
Nasty Business
Soleia choked and shook her head. The progress Ludwin was referring to was of pregnancy!
This old man, and the entire town, had been hoping for Orion's return in the last few years. Not because they wanted a famous hero in their midst, but because they wanted — needed — him to produce an heir so that the rest of his shameless relatives would finally loosen their grip on the estate.
Their haughty attitudes had not endeared themselves to the townspeople in the least. When Soleia first moved in, she was also treated coldly by the townspeople. They had assumed the worst of her. However, she had managed to change their impression of her in the past two years when they realized she was the one coughing up the coins.
"Oh, well. It's only been a while," Ludwin said encouragingly. "The both of you are young. I am sure a child will come with time."