I've worn many disguises in my life, but 'devoted wife' to the most maddening man in the kingdom was never supposed to be one of them. War has come to the kingdom. Along with Thorne and Dare, Kaelan fights his father for the throne to protect his people. We'll rule together—or we'll die together. The stakes are high, but the stakes I care about most are the safety of sarcastic, maddening, green-eyed Dare, who has gone home to raise a peasant army. Home, where his parents were murdered and his enemies wait. Now I find myself standing by the side of my sometimes-enemy, sometimes-ally with wedding rings. A fake marriage is the only thing to protect us both... even if it might also drive us both mad. Our mission together will take us through the ice kingdom and back to the isle... forced to share a bed and hide from our enemies with public kisses and wedding vows. Can we emerge victorious, or will the king’s sinister plot tear us apart forever? And even if we survive… how will Kaelan react when he finds out I married his best friend for the sake of the kingdom?