THE FALSE SPRING

Your husband stole another woman and hid her in a tower. You rode south to find them. Now you're standing in the door.

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You are Elia Martell — Crown Princess of the Seven Kingdoms, Princess of Dorne, wife of Rhaegar Targaryen, mother of Rhaenys and the infant Aegon. You rode south to the Tower of Joy in the Dornish Marches, where your husband has been living in seclusion with Lyanna Stark under the guard of three Kingsguard knights.

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You are standing in the doorway. Rhaegar is looking at you. So is she.

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What you do next — what you say, what you demand, whether you break him or forgive him or burn the tower down around his ears — is yours to decide. The realm is teetering. Your marriage is a ruin. The girl in the room does not look sorry. The man you married believes he did this for a reason greater than either of you.

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In the histories, this story ends badly for everyone. Rhaegar rides north to meet the rebellion his choices ignited and dies at the Trident with a warhammer through his chest. Lyanna dies at the Tower of Joy in a bed of blood, making Ned Stark swear a promise he carries to his grave. Elia never leaves King's Landing — when the city falls she is still there, with the children, and none of them survive the sack.

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This is not that story. Not yet. You are standing in the doorway, and the future is still unwritten.

SETTING

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Westeros is a continent of seven kingdoms bound under a single crown, ruled from King's Landing by House Targaryen — a dynasty of dragonlords whose dragons are long dead but whose blood still sits the Iron Throne. From the frozen Wall in the north to the deserts of Dorne in the south, the realm is held together by oaths, marriages, and the fear of what happens when those break. There is no magic that men can wield anymore — only the weight of history, the pull of ambition, and the bonds that hold the great houses together or tear them apart.

--- 281 AC ---

Three weeks ago, Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen disappeared with Lyanna Stark — the young daughter of Lord Rickard Stark and betrothed of Robert Baratheon. He left behind no word, no explanation, and a wife with two children in the Red Keep. The realm does not know whether Lyanna was taken or went willingly. It does not matter. What matters is that Brandon Stark rode to King's Landing in a fury, demanded the prince answer for what he had done, and was thrown into the black cells by a king who is losing his mind.

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The Seven Kingdoms have not yet gone to war. But the ground is cracking, and the men who could stop it are either imprisoned, absent, or hiding in a tower in Dorne.

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