She agreed to the engagement to escape her mother's schemes. He agreed because he saw what was coming for her — and he cannot let it happen.
Charming Fairy Tales Book 4
Lady Irma Kaufmann has spent her entire life being steered toward a titled match by a mother who sees her as a means to an end. An arrangement with the Crown Prince should be just another chess move — temporary, diplomatic, and entirely without sentiment. She is sensible enough to know the difference between a real future and a convenient fiction.
What she is not prepared for is Drew.
Crown Prince Andrej has kept the world at a careful distance for good reason. The curse he carries is not one anyone can see — it lives behind his eyes, in unbidden flashes of things yet to come. Futures he never asked to witness. Truths he cannot unfeel. Closeness is a liability he cannot afford.
But when a vision shows him something threatening Irma — something dark and certain and closing in — he stops running from the arrangement and starts using it as a shield.
Keeping her close is the only way to keep her safe.
Irma, however, is not the kind of woman who stays where she's put. And the more time she spends with a prince who is sharper, stranger, and far more guarded than she expected, the more determined she becomes to understand what he's hiding.
She never expected to find herself wanting to stay.
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