You're not the same as you were before… That’s what happens when a man has been to hell and back—literally—as Georg Kivistö, former bruin king, knows all too well. Restless. Aimless. Georg is at loose ends until he encounters a strange woman in a strange land. Sweet, alluring and innocent, Alice soon wraps him around her little finger, one maddening knot at a time. Georg knows better than anyone he can't afford another romantic entanglement, but what a bruin wants a bruin gets. Or dies trying. As shadows close in, the path to a new throne seems inevitable, but is it a crown Georg really needs—Or a queen?