

Besides, there was the fact that Samir and his mother were basically the poor relations. Eri was just three-he was practically a baby-so he and Samir didn’t really play together, either. Warrehn was a lot older than him-ten-so he had never played with Samir. Samir wasn’t glad, but he wasn’t upset, either. His mother was glad that Warrehn and baby Eri were gone.

They’re almost certainly dead.”ĭespite being a child, even he could tell she wasn’t being honest. They were kidnapped by the rebels.” She added after a moment, “Poor things. “Not them,” his mother said, with a strange smile. Was Mother talking about the king and queen-consort? They had died months ago. “They’re gone, my darling,” his mother said. His sleepy mind couldn’t understand what she was saying. Those were the first words his mother said that morning.

What will Samir do when he has to choose? Can love win over hatred and their parents’ messy, toxic past?Ĭalluvia's Royalty Series by Alessandra Hazard He loves his mother, but his attraction to Warrehn is like a powerful drug, consuming him and changing him in ways he hasn’t expected. They have no future together when Warrehn and his mother are determined to crush each other. He knows this thing between them is hopeless. Warrehn unsettles him and makes him behave like another person entirely, someone Samir barely recognizes: someone desperate and shameless. Samir has never been the object of such intense hatred-and such intense passion.

Unfortunately, protecting his mother means being part of her plans to keep Warrehn from the throne, which only makes Warrehn despise him more.īut when he and Warrehn are thrown together in circumstances beyond their control, they have to learn to put up with each other. Samir never thought he’d have to play the part of the villain. He knows Samir can’t be trusted, but Warrehn can’t seem to stay away from him. When he returns to reclaim his throne, all he wants is to punish the usurpers: the woman who killed his family, and her son, Samir, who has grown up to be as beautiful and as poisonous as his mother. His family brutally murdered and his throne stolen, Prince Warrehn has planned his revenge for twenty years.
