A hopeful fairy-tale romantasy about transformational love and becoming who you were meant to be.
A princess without a kingdom. A shapeshifter bound to the wild. And a love fierce enough to defy a king.
Emma of Estoria has spent her life overlooked—more bargaining chip than daughter, more possession than person. But when she is taken from the safety of the castle and cast into the wild, she is forced to confront a world far more honest—and far more dangerous than anything she's ever known. She should have died there. Instead she is saved by a shapeshifter with a painful past. Darrien is no ordinary man—and the forest he calls home is no ordinary place. Beneath its canopy, something ancient stirs—magic that does not simply protect, but transforms. As Emma learns to survive, she begins to change—not just outwardly, but in spirit. Through strange and powerful gifts, she discovers parts of herself she was never allowed to know. And with Darrien, she finds something even more unexpected: a choice. But the life she left behind is not so easily escaped. As the kingdom closes in on their fledgling love—and the truth of who, and what, Darrien is begins to unravel—Emma must decide where, and to whom, she truly belongs: The crown that shackled her… or the wild that set her free. Because some transformations are not meant to be undone.
