I Need My Husband To Fall In Love With Me So His Family Can’t Kill Me!
For many years, the King has turned his back on Astros. He ignores its Lord Cardinal, Alfred Velcourt, and the Houses of his bannermen. Even Trade with the Capital, where the King rules from his throne, has dried up, and Astros’ own resources and influence are beginning to decline.
Skylar Velcourt believes that she will one day follow in the footsteps of her father, and return her homeland to its former glory. But when House Everus extends a proposal between the two heirs of both their Houses, she does not expect her father to accept. Now she is sentenced to a political marriage she never asked for, as the only way for Astros to survive is to bind House Velcourt to the favoured and powerful House Everus of Xoras.
Lady Skylar of House Velcourt is soon betrothed to marry Lord Caspian of House Everus. They knew each other as children, and when they meet again after years apart, Skylar immediately despises him. He is cold, unreadable and infuriatingly indifferent. But they are able to agree on one thing; their hatred for one another.
Skylar begs him to refuse the marriage. Caspian ignores her pleas out of duty, while Skylar must accept out of duty. And so they marry, bound by politics, resentment, and a shared vow to keep their distance.
Thrust from the warm gardens of Astros, to the cold fortresses of Xoras, Skylar struggles to adjust to her new life and all the restrictive rules already in place for her. And her marriage is no better. It is a performance by day, and a battlefield in private. Skylar loathes Caspian’s rigid honour and blunt unkindness, while Caspian resents Skylar’s defiance and fire. They try to destroy each other with every glare and conversation. Yet beneath the hostility lies something neither of them can explain or ignore.
But Skylar soon uncovers a truth far more terrifying than an unwanted marriage. She discovers the real reason as to why House Everus proposed a union between their two Houses. It is a plan of deception and betrayal, one that sentences Skylar to imminent death. But Skylar has no solid evidence, nor any allies. No one will believe her. If she speaks, she will be dismissed as a desperate girl trying to escape her marriage. If she runs, she will be accused of being a traitor. And every choice will doom her parents and Astros, with it.
There is only one path left. And it is the most dangerous of them all.
Skylar must make her husband, Caspian Everus fall in love with her.
But affection is harder to fake than hatred, and the task seems impossible. Even as the lines between act and reality begin to blur, and tensions rise between them, Skylar wonders if the man she vowed to hate is her only hope to save her and her family from destruction, or her greatest threat of all.