Ember and Forest

Two kingdoms. Two elements that were never meant to touch.
For three hundred years, the fire realm of Ashwind and the ice realm of Frostmere have kept a careful, watchful distance — bound by old treaties and older fears. Isolde, princess of Frostmere, has spent her life mastering stillness, taught that showing feeling is the same as showing weakness. Kaelan, the overlooked third son of Ashwind, arrives as a stranger with no crown and no patience for the games diplomacy usually demands.
What begins as a chance meeting in a frozen garden becomes something neither of them can undo — a love that breaks every rule their two houses have lived by. As duty, politics, and the weight of two crowns push against them, Isolde and Kaelan must decide whether fire and frost really do destroy each other, or whether, against everything they've been told, they can grow something new.
This is a story about learning to feel without fear, about choosing each other in spite of history, and about what blooms

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