About this story
She takes the news perched in a sacred orchard, eating the apples and flirting without shame. Her new husband, the Heavenly Monarch, wants only a child conceived from souls, and keeps a vow made centuries ago to a love he lost. Thirty-five chapters of ritual, restraint, and a gem she has carried since birth.
Who you’ll meet
A crimson-haired Fae woman delivered to the wrong heavenly court by a palanquin mix-up, married by accident to a monarch who never appears on camera.