Ties of Dust

A girl hiding in plain sight. A prince trying to save the peninsula. A very inconvenient enchantment.

Flora owes her role as a royal bodyguard to her ability to control Dust-the invisible magic created by movement. She doesn't pretend to be a man, she just doesn't correct those who assume the Siqualian princess's bodyguard must be a man...which is everyone. Including the delegation of the foreign prince to whom the princess is betrothed.

Prince Cassius's sole purpose in seeking a marriage all...