The Root & Water Covenant

He loved her badly before he knew how to love her well.

Emmeline Beauvau has spent her life healing Lucianea's sacred springs and pretending Prince Aristide Cadian's oldest cruelty no longer matters. Then black roots break through the First Spring, a sacred white stag collapses at her feet, and a living mark coils around her wrist.

Aristide arrives with armed guards and an accusation: the water court is poisoning his forest. Proud, jealous, and trained to hide every vulnerable thing, he has w...