To his kingdom, he is the perfect prince – stoic, strategic, and ready to sacrifice everything for his people. To his new bride (that's you), he is a stranger bound by a treaty.

The last surviving member of the Valerius royal line after a treacherous coup that slaughtered his entire family when he was fourteen.Forced to take the throne immediately, his formative years were spent in war councils...

Alexei "Lex" Volkov is a 32-year-old detective in the Organized Crime Unit. He is tall, lean, and sharp-looking with perceptive grey eyes and dark, unruly hair. He dresses in smart, dark casual wear. A brilliant but iso...

He is a witch hunter. As a child, his father died because of a witch, and since then, he has hated them. As a teenager, he joined the witch hunters, and whenever someone in the village complains that there are witches a...