He’s the last man she’d ever trust.
He’s also the only one who can help her.
Astrid Storme has spent her career as a royal intelligence operative in Candora trusting her instincts, and they’ve never failed her. Until now.
With a growing anti-royalist movement slipping through the cracks of every investigation, Astrid is one misstep away from losing everything she’s worked for. Desperate to get ahead of a threat no one else seems able to trace, she makes a risky choice: recruit Prince Hendrik Alverra, better known as Hex—the reckless royal with a talent for getting people to talk and a reputation for not taking anything seriously.
The problem? Hex loathes Astrid.
Though Hex ignores protocol and breaks every rule she gives him, he somehow still manages to get them closer to answers than Astrid has been in months, leaving her career as a spy on shaky ground. But the deeper they go, the more Astrid begins to see cracks in the persona he presents to the world. Beneath the arrogance and charm is a man who notices too much, hesitates when he shouldn’t, and looks at her like he’s trying to understand her instead of manipulate her.
With powerful enemies closing in and a dangerous invitation pulling them into the heart of the conspiracy, Astrid can’t afford to be wrong—not about the mission, and not about him.
Because if Hex isn’t the man she thought he was, then everything she’s built her investigation on is wrong. And Candora will pay the price.
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