The Helio's Bride
A princess with a twisted past. When her fate takes an unfortunate turn, she is thrown off her pedestal and into the web of marriage with the bloodthirsty king of the enemy kingdom. Faced with life and death choices, Delaney must decide whether to side with the enemy—her new husband—or her family who betrayed her. __ As the son of the sun goddess, Darius finds his life unnecessarily long and boring. Until he meets his bride, Delaney, the feisty, fiery princess who is rumored to have rejected suitors by the dozen, the only female descendant of his arch nemesis, and a demon princess. When they get married, will he use her in his quest for revenge, or fall in the trap of her charm like every other male does?
The Vortex (1)
"There is no true victor in war," Marlena concluded the book she was reading.
She had read it more times than she could count. At this point, she no longer needed the book to read about the war between Yorucia and Itrusia two decades ago. She could practically recite it.
Alas, it was one of the only books she could access. She and her mother were only maids in the castle, and although she could easily find books in the grand royal library, it was not allowed.
How unfair, Marlena thought. Those snobby royals wouldn't even read all those books if they lived as long as deities did.
King Cassius would rather burn all those books to ashes than let anyone else have them, and his queen was a worse nightmare. No one liked her. No wonder they were each other's mate—there was no way fate would let either of them end up with better people.
"Marlena! Are you still daydreaming?" Her mother yelled into the room.