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Princess Maralena (The Glass Princess) and her family are still grieving the loss of her mother she passed away several years prior but the King has since forbidden mirrors and the ones that are around are either broken or covered. There is magic in the world but seems to be less magic in the Glass kingdom since losing the Queen, later we also find that the gods for the different kingdoms have left the realm and that's one reason for decreased magic in the world. While usually noble females are married off as a teenager Mara remains unmarried but the King has decided this needs to change she is turning 21 after all... good news for her is that at least she is getting the opportunity to choose her own husband.
The Sun Prince is handsome and determined to have Princess Mara as his wife even though word has gotten out that the Glass Kingdom's magic is dwindling he knows that the princess is bound to have hidden power and he wants to be able to get his hands on her magic... Yes our handsome Sun Prince is up to shady shenanigans!
The Glass King has invited many eligible men from all over the different kingdoms to come to compete in a tournament for his daughter's hand. While many of the men are way older Mara still believes that she will be able to choose her own match. Mara's older brother is also unwed but she envies him at least he won't have to leave the only home he's ever known and become a pawn in the royal game to build alliances.
Mara meets Evrardin while he's at the castle for the tournament with the Sun Prince (Evrardin is the captain of the guard for the sun kingdom) he exchanges some flirtations with Mara and then he makes her a bet that she will end up engaged to the Sun Prince by the end of the tournament, she takes the bet knowing that she has been given the approval from her father to select her own husband... only at the start of the tournament her father makes some jabs towards one of the other kingdoms and in the same speech announces that the winner of the jousting tournament will also win his daughter's hand. This is a huge blow for Mara her life is being decided for her and she now lost the last choice she had left.
Evrardin has taken to following Mara and she is irritated by Evrardin's presence she doesn't need him around she has her own guards... he has the pleasure of telling her that the Sun Prince has given him the task of being her personal protector once they are back in the Sun kingdom... leaving them a lot of time to get to know each other better.
The Sun Prince makes unreasonable demands on Mara once she returns with him to his kingdom and while she is working hard to figure out how to accomplish what the prince wants, she desperately wants to be anywhere else, how is she going to get out of this?
While Mara works towards the princes goals she stumbles upon secrets that the Sun Kingdom wants hidden and more than just her own life may be at stake.
Evrardin's life has not been his own for quite some time will he be able to shake the Prince's demands and go after what he really wants?
Over all I really enjoyed this book, did feel that some of the story dragged in the middle but I would read more from this author and if you like fantasy/romantasy you will like the twists, turns and drama!
Hoping for more stories in this same world!
*ARC read *Romance *Fantasy *magical world *Forbidden romance *fairy tale *450 pages
*multi POV --> dual POV with occasional POV from side characters *drama *slow burn (very slow) *some spice *banter *Enemies --> More
*adult situations/themes
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