The Girl The Prince Couldn’t Kill
Kaila Ashvale was born to become the future Crown Princess of Nymrador, a powerful Fae Kingdom known for its magic and noble bloodlines. In their world, magic was everything. It was power, pride, and proof that someone truly belonged.
But Nymrador was also a kingdom that lived under the shadow of war. Beyond its borders stood its most feared enemy, the Dragon Kingdom, a land of fire and ancient creatures whispered about like legends.
Even before Kaila could walk, her marriage to the Crown Prince had already been arranged. The court called it destiny, and the king made it law. As the daughter of the realm’s greatest general and its most powerful healer, everyone believed her bloodline would guarantee immense magic.
In Nymrador, being born without magic was not just unlucky. It was a crime. The powerless were treated as worthless, and the punishment was death.
So when Kaila grew up quiet and restrained, no one questioned it. The kingdom believed her magic was simply too powerful and too dangerous to reveal. Her silence was praised as discipline. Her refusal to fly was admired as control.
No one dared to imagine the truth.
Kaila Ashveil had been born without magic.
On the night meant to celebrate her engagement, the king demanded proof. He ordered her to fly, even just one foot above the ground. Kaila tried, but she could not. In that moment, the secret her parents had protected her whole life shattered in front of the entire court.
The king declared her existence a crime against Nymrador’s laws. A Crownbound heir without magic was an abomination, a weakness the realm could not afford. Her engagement was canceled, and she was sentenced to die at dawn.
Then her younger sister, Kendra, glowing with their mother’s magic, was chosen without hesitation. The court crowned Kendra as the future Crown Princess as if Kaila had never existed.
Kaila believed her story ended there.
But when she opened her eyes again, she was no longer in Nymrador. She was in the mortal realm, alone and powerless, trapped in a human body, but somehow still alive.
Far away, Lucien Firemont, the feared Crown Dragon Prince, was given a mission by his father. Every two hundred years, the Dragon Festival demanded a human sacrifice, an offering meant to protect the kingdom’s strength. Lucien was ordered to enter the human world and claim the life required by their ancient law.
Kaila thought she had escaped death once. She never imagined fate would drag her into another curse, and force her to fight for her life again.
Lucien had lived his whole life believing humans were fragile and meaningless. To him, sacrifice was not cruelty. It was duty. And love? He used to laugh at that word, convinced it was nothing but weakness.
But then he found Kaila.
Before she could even understand what was happening, Lucien had already taken her to his kingdom.
And the cruelest truth was this.
She was the one he was supposed to offer.
Now Lucien stood trapped between two things he could not escape. His duty as the Crown Prince of the Dragon Kingdom, and the girl who made him feel something he never believed he could.
Because if he saved Kaila, he would betray his father and defy his entire kingdom. But if he sacrificed her, he would lose the one girl who made him forget he was a prince and remember he still had a heart.