Imprisoned in a gilded cage. Facing an impossible which of my men will survive this. Which one gets to stay alive. It’s my decision. The most terrifying decision I have ever had to make. The most devastating. I never wanted to be a princess. I never wanted to leave my home. It was what I had to do, so I could bring down the academy. So I could save the men I was supposed to protect. But now I’m far away from three of them, thinking that I’ve saved them, embedded in an affair with a man who used to be a ghost. All while trying desperately to forget about who I used to be before I took my grandfather’s offer. Be the princess. Come home. Save your men. I thought I had given them back their lives. I had been wrong. They have never stopped being prisoners. Except this time, they are my prisoners. Prisoners of my desire… and not in the way they had been before. I decide who lives. I decide who dies. And if don’t make up my mind quickly enough, then we all die. I’m not going to let that happen. I am going to keep them safe. Even if it means killing my grandfather or not honoring my words. Even if it means spilling innocent blood. Because I am going to make sure that at least one of my men survives. No matter the cost.