When you’re living a lie, the truth will unmake you.
Vara Callaghan has always told herself she would stop at nothing to become queen of her kingdom; she never imagined she’d have to impersonate her twin brother in a fake marriage to do so.
Miles from home and away from everyone who knows her for who she is, not who she’s pretending to be, Vara must play the role of the perfect “betrothed” until her missing brother can be found and, what her father assures her, “seamlessly take her place” in Maris, the kingdom that will one day be her brother’s new home. But as Vara gets to know her brother's betrothed, Princess Mae Magdelena, she realizes that her identity may not be the biggest secret she has to keep.
Then a history of secret and outlawed magic, a false past, and an escape plan long in the making are revealed, and Vara finds herself at a crossroads, caught between the only life she’s ever known and the one she never imagined she could have, and she will either have to break the law and a centuries-old pact to keep Mae safe, or break her heart.
