The Bride of Lies: A Tale of War, Prophecy, and Forbidden Hearts

di Lucian Reef (Autore)

Lucian Reef, 2025

They said the war would end with a wedding. So the crown demanded a bride, and a kingdom obeyed. Yet beneath the jeweled veil stood not a princess, but her brother—Prince Ronan, the second son of Corvin, a man whose blood whispered with storms. He wore silk and silence, a living offering to peace, and stepped into the rival duchy of Valen where every stone still remembered blood. His secret was a knife pressed against his heart, his beauty a deception crafted by duty, and the man he was to marry—Duke Evander Valen—was the blade's other edge. Evander, the Iron Wolf of Valen, victor of wars and breaker of kings, had seen through the lie the moment his gaze met the so-called bride's. Yet instead of exposing him, he smiled like a man greeting a storm he had long awaited. The Duke, cold as forged steel, chose to play along, to bind the false bride in politics and oaths, to make him both shield and snare. But the sky above them knew what neither man dared to confess—that lies, once spoken beneath heaven, do not remain lies forever. Night by night, the walls of the Valen citadel became the ribs of a living heart. The rain carried whispers, the air thickened with things unsaid, and Ronan's gift—his curse—stirred. The power of the sky moved through him like breath, answering emotion with weather, turning longing into thunder, fear into storm. Every time Evander's hand brushed his skin, the world trembled; every word between them was a duel fought in silence. The marriage born of deceit became a chessboard of nations, of faith, of desire—and the sky itself, restless and alive, became their accomplice. But peace built on lies demands sacrifice. As Corvin, the cold king and Ronan's own blood, moved his armies under banners of prophecy, the false bride became the prophecy's key: a vessel of divinity or destruction. The Duke who once sought to control him found himself bound instead—not by oaths, but by the simple, ruinous fact of love. Their nights grew sharper than swords; their hearts bled in the quiet spaces between thunderclaps. To love one another was treason. To deny it was death. In the shadow of war, their truth unfurled like dawn over the battlefield: fragile, radiant, impossible. Ronan, torn between the sky's command and the human heart, learned that prophecy was never a sentence—it was a question waiting to be answered. And Evander, who had spent a lifetime mastering control, finally learned surrender, not of power but of soul. When the last crown fell and the heavens broke open, the storm that had begun with a single vow washed everything clean—kingdoms, sins, lies, and names. What remains is not peace, but the quiet after the rain. In that silence, two men stand beneath the same sky, no longer prince and duke, liar and enemy, but something purer, rarer, and infinitely fragile: two hearts still beating after the gods have stopped listening. In a world where every oath costs blood, and every truth burns brighter than lightning, The Bride of Lies is a tale of deception and devotion, of kingdoms built on faith and undone by love. It is the story of a false marriage that ended a war—and of the two men who discovered that sometimes the only way to save the world is to let the sky break.

• Autore: Lucian Reef
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Lucian Reef
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232164881