← Beranda

The Elf Queen's Choice

Aethera is the last queen of the Starlight Elves, born with the power of Starspeech and bound by an arranged marriage meant to save her dying race. But on the eve of her engagement ceremony, just as she turns twenty, she catches her fiancé, Cassian, in bed with her cousin, Maeve. Without hesitation, she tears up their marriage contract. Then, defying her entire kingdom, she points to the one man everyone despises—a half-elf bastard who has spent his life being treated like dirt. Her people think she's lost her mind. What they don't know is that the so-called worthless outcast is actually Kaelen, the ruthless Shadow King and secret ruler of a powerful kingdom overseas. And he's been waiting for her in the shadows for fifteen years. Bound by a magical Star Pact, their marriage begins as nothing more than an alliance. Aethera makes one thing clear: they're partners, nothing more. But Kaelen has other plans. He offers her his unimaginable fortune, an army of thirty thousand warriors, and a devotion so fierce he'd burn the world to keep her safe. As Cassian falls to his knees, begging for a second chance, Maeve's carefully crafted noble facade crumbles, exposing her true origins as a servant's daughter. Then, during the Grand Star Festival, a terrifying rift tears open in the sky, threatening to swallow everything. Kaelen sacrifices himself to shield Aethera with his own blood, while she unleashes the full power of Starspeech, binding her soul to his in a desperate attempt to save him. Somewhere between their marriage of convenience and the battle for survival, their carefully drawn boundaries disappear. The alliance becomes love. The hunter becomes the hunted. And the man she thought she'd chosen turns out to be the one who has been orchestrating their fate for fifteen years. She thought she'd chosen a king. But to the Shadow King, she was never just part of the plan. She was the only place he'd ever called home.