Reborn To Rule With The Broken Prince

Seraphina died in flames, betrayed by her stepsister Lysandra and the fiancé who conspired against her. She wakes on the day she's forced to yield the honors she won through blood. This time, she says the words they want to hear. She watches Lysandra accept the dragon rider crown, watches Adrian kneel beside her, and bides her time.

When the Emperor asks if she truly steps aside, she doesn't just agree. She raises her hand and points to Lucien—the Ashen Prince, crippled and mocked, once the empire's fiercest dragon rider until he shattered his legs three years ago. The hall erupts. Lucien asks if she understands what marrying him means. She does—mockery from the entire capital—and she chooses him anyway.

What follows is not a love story—not at first. Before she ever sets foot in his fortress, Lucien meets her outside the palace and presses a black obsidian pass seal into her hand—a key to Ashen Rage. Later, he brings her inside, and she begins treating the curse gnawing at his legs with battlefield medicine. While keeping up the act in public, she starts piecing together where her grandfather's Dragon Rider command sigil has been hidden. When Lysandra is ordered to lead troops against dragon-riding bandits—a battlefield she's never seen—Seraphina refuses to cover for her. She forces Lysandra to face the lie she's been living.

Lucien, under her care, begins to feel his legs again. And when the Northern war reignites, Seraphina drops all disguise. She reveals the military strategy that won the North once before, while Lucien takes to the skies on dragonback. Together, they expose the usurper pulling strings from the shadows and take back everything they lost—not as a favor from fate, but as two people who refused to stay beaten.