![]() ![]() Adjusting to the bustling city takes some time, but she quickly makes friends who assist her and help her settle in to her new life. Inside, however, she’s plotting her escape, and when the pair arrives at Chialto, Zoe takes advantage of an unexpected stop and flees, settling in a tent community on the banks of the Marisi River. Still in the throes of grief, Zoe reveals little to Damien, and outwardly presents herself as receptive to the king’s overtures. With her life in disarray and her future uncertain, Zoe makes the journey with the messenger, a man named Damien Serlast, a powerful advisor to the king. Then a messenger from the capitol arrives with a life-changing message: Zoe Ardelay is to accompany him to Chialto, where she will become the king’s fifth wife. When her father dies, his secrets are not revealed, and her grief is unbearable. Raised in relative isolation, she knows little of the politics of her homeland’s capitol or her late mother’s family. She remembers little of her family’s life at the court in Chialto, and she is unsure as to why or how her father fell from favor. Zoe Ardelay was raised by her father, a former advisor to Welce’s King Vernon. ![]()
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