"…ignored the faint taint of the herb he’d taken earlier that still lingered in his throat. The bitterness promised both refuge and rage in his future when he still had an empty belly and a handful of lies."

The Crown is dead and stolen. The Royal Family is nearly gone. Iceland, split and decaying, is now under two courts that both claim ownership. The Kingdom of eternal winter granted to the fairies by the Goddess Elira will be no more without a proper member of the Cleel bloodline on the throne.

Lumi is to spy on the Ice Court and conceive an heir. If he fails, the one who controls him will do what’s needed to get an heir and make the Crown live once more. Lumi’s forbidden infatuation with the icy Prince Jaki is merely another thing to get him through his days in the carefully crafted fantasy he’s built to keep his sanity intact. What’s left of it.

Jaki’s been suspicious of Lumi from day one. He shouldn’t be merciful or caring of treasonous spies when Iceland is rapidly approaching the point of no return. When he learns Lumi’s true intentions and why, Jaki will have to risk himself to bring Lumi home for good.

Both can take the Crown, and both can save Iceland. Or they can return what was stolen and fulfill Elira’s wish.

Unless the false heir stops them.

This novel is for mature readers and ends with a baby. It works as a standalone, and the war is very loosely mentioned by Kalen in Valentine, however, Valentine is not required to understand this. Dead Crown is set many years beforehand in the fairy Kingdom of Iceland in the 1600s.

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