The King and the Criminal | Charlotte Ashe
What happens when the fairytale ends but the journey continues? Book II of the Heart of All Worlds Series finds Sehrys and Brieden living peacefully in Khryslee. But when King Firae breaches an ancient, spellbound pact by crossing The Boarder into Villalu in pursuit of a convicted criminal, Sehrys is forced into a role he was once groomed for but Brieden fears--ruler of the Eastern Border Lands. Meanwhile, Firae must rely on the very criminal he was after to help him get home alive--a man his own mother exiled long ago, but who awakens something in his heart stronger than even his sworn duties as king.As each man struggles to understand his own destiny, devotion and legacy, a deeper and more urgent truth confronts them all: Their world is in far greater danger than they realized, and each of them plays an integral part in its fate.