Scarsong

Kaelis Laighleis survived the massacre of Carnaugh by breaking the High Council's cardinal rule: using his secret, god-like magic. Now hailed as a hero and bound to his shadowy handlers' whims, Kael hides his true identity and shuts himself off from the world, terrified his secret will destroy anyone he loves. His precarious peace is shattered when the Crown issues a devastating ultimatum: Kael has sixty days to find a romantic bondmate, or be forced into permanent, loveless servitude to secure the Crown Prince's succession. Forced into a highly public courtship, Kael finds his defenses crumbling around Cassian, an earnest and charming young knight who makes him want a real future. But Kael’s tyrannical handlers have given him a second, lethal assignment: hunt down a spy hidden within his own squad. As his investigation zeroes in on Lysander, an enigmatic knight with ties to Kael’s buried past, Kael is drawn into a massive conspiracy. To protect the man he is falling for, Kael must expose the rot at the heart of their kingdom, risk his own freedom, and decide who to trust in a world built on lies.