The Last Love in Aurelia

von Dorothy Whitesboro

164 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

For twenty years, Aurelia has known perfect peace.No one cries in its streets. No children scream with joy. No soldier trembles before battle, and no lover dares to speak the language of longing. Beneath the violet storms of the Maelstrom, the kingdom survives behind the Aegis Ward-a magical barrier sustained by absolute emotional stillness.Princess Arabella Kingsley has spent five years pretending to be exactly what her kingdom demands: calm, obedient, and empty.Every morning she secretly avoids the Draught of Stillness, hiding the forbidden warmth of her emotions beneath layers of royal discipline. Then Ronan Blackwell is assigned as her personal guard.Unlike every other soldier in Aurelia, Ronan's eyes are clear. His voice still carries the roughness of a living man. And when his bare hand touches Arabella's wrist, something awakens that the kingdom has spent decades trying to destroy.Love.Their connection is dangerous enough to expose them both. But it also leads Arabella toward a terrible truth about her father, King Jasper Kingsley. The Aegis Ward is not an ancient blessing protecting Aurelia from the Maelstrom. It is the product of Jasper's frozen grief, created after the loss of the woman he loved.Worse still, Ronan's identity has been erased. The archives reveal that he is the biological son of Lady Vivienne-the last living piece of Jasper's lost love. Jasper could not bear to kill the child, but neither could he allow him to remember his mother. So Ronan was raised inside the Citadel, stripped of his past and fed the same alchemical poison that emptied the kingdom of feeling.Now Arabella understands the final horror.Their love is breaking the Aegis Ward.As the barrier fractures and the Maelstrom begins to descend, Arabella and Ronan are hunted as traitors. To save Aurelia, they must enter the High Sanctum and confront the grief that has imprisoned an entire civilization.There, with the kingdom hanging between fear and freedom, they make the one choice Aurelia was never meant to allow.They choose to feel.And when their joined hands unleash the warmth of genuine human devotion, the ancient barrier finally shatters.The storm does not destroy Aurelia.It brings rain.For the first time in twenty years, its people can laugh, weep, remember, and love beneath an open sky.But freedom has a price, and Arabella's last love may also be the force that finally gives the forgotten kingdom its life back.

• Themen: Belletristik Fantasyliteratur Fantasy Romance
• ISBN: 9798182801843
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: DOROTHY MCCANLIES WHITESBORO