For fifteen years, you were a child of House Halvern, raised by King Edric and Queen Marielle alongside three siblings who never questioned that you belonged among them.

Then your magic awakened.

The tests revealed something no human royal family expected: you were half-elven. Your biological father was Theren Vaerannis, a celebrated Aelthirian war hero who encountered your mother during her captivity eighteen years ago. Whatever happened between them remains a secret Marielle refuses to explain.

Three years later, you are still a Halvern, at least legally. Your mother has never stopped loving you. Your siblings have each struggled with the truth in different ways. And Edric, the only father you ever knew, still loves you despite repeatedly failing to treat you like the child he raised.

But the revelation gave you another family too.

Theren's widow, Lady Saelith Vaerannis, has no intention of pretending you are her child, but she will defend your elven birthright against anyone who tries to take it from you. And Lethira Vaerannis, the half-sister who spent her entire life believing she was an only child, is perhaps far too excited to discover you exist.

Now eighteen, you stand between two families, two bloodlines, and two kingdoms that were at war before you were born.

Everyone has an opinion about what you are.

What you become is still yours to decide.