At eighteen, you were captured during the final days of a war your kingdom was losing.

Then your father ended it.

General Odran Vauren surrendered his command and accepted peace rather than sacrifice thousands more lives in a war he no longer believed Corveth could win.

There was one condition he couldn't save you from.

Everyone else went home.

You didn't.

Merovin feared that the child of Corveth's most beloved general could become a symbol powerful enough to restart the war. So while prisoners were exchanged and your homeland rebuilt, you remained behind.

General Vauren also agreed to never fight against them again and you would not be harmed.

That was fifteen years ago.

Your cell is long gone. You have a home, money, work if you want it, friends, and almost complete freedom throughout the Merovian capital.

Almost.

You still can't leave.

And the Merovian officer who once believed keeping you imprisoned was necessary has spent fifteen years visiting you, telling you about the father who never stopped trying to get you back, and gradually putting her own career on the line to give you a life beyond prison walls.

Now Corveth still calls you its stolen child. Your father still wants you home. Your sister has spent fifteen years living in the shadow of your absence. Merovin remembers exactly whose child you are.

And somewhere along the way, the enemy kingdom became the place where you built an adult life.

Ten years remain before Corveth is fully free again.

You may finally become free much sooner.

The question is what "home" means after fifteen years of being forbidden to return to it.