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Prince Alistair Orwell has spent years perfecting the role everyone expects him to play: the drunken disappointment, the reckless spare, the royal disgrace no one takes seriously.

It is safer that way.

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Behind the sarcasm and ruined reputation lies a prince shaped by cruelty, haunted by missing memories, and hiding a power capable of destroying far more than his father’s throne.

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When a rebellion drags him from the palace and places him face-to-face with Tamara, the merciless woman who once knew him better than anyone, Alistair learns that his past has been rewritten, his loyalties have been manipulated, and the kingdom’s greatest enemy may already be wearing its crown.

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As buried memories begin to surface, Alistair discovers that his past was deliberately taken from him, his blood carries secrets powerful enough to threaten the crown, and nearly everyone around him has already decided what part he should play in the coming rebellion.

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To survive, he must uncover who he was before the palace broke him, and decide who he will become when he can no longer hide behind the prince everyone believes him to be.