Souls in Ruin (The Soulbound #1)

Souls in Ruin (The Soulbound #1)

Author: Jacqueline White Listening Length: 24h 4m

A marriage forged in blood. A kingdom bathed in silence. And a princess who refuses to break. When Princess Mireille is wed to a foreign king with cold eyes and colder intentions, she expects distance, perhaps cruelty, not chains. Kept imprisoned within her own kingdom’s walls, she learns her father’s past sins are n...

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Iwas born to die.

Not in the dramatic sense of some tragic destiny foretold by prophetic crones, but in the simple fact that I should have never existed. A union between a king and his guilt, sealed in a moment of weakness or madness, and certainly never meant to draw breath.

For the palace’s halls were lined with relics of history and control, and I was a relic of impulse, wrapped in blankets instead of parchment and left to be forgotten.

In many ways, my conception was a miracle. Not the divine blessing so often lauded by doting parents, but the shocking outcome of a romance doomed to wilt.