Wished You Were Dead

King Karloi of Croisen is uneasy in his position as ruler. With his wife’s father, Duke Deluah, scheming for the throne, Karloi—an outsider to the royal bloodline—constantly fears for his sovereignty. That lingering anxiety has bled into his marriage, yet even as he grows increasingly distant from his wife, Evonne, he cannot help but question the harshness of his own treatment toward her. Though he no longer recognizes the woman beside him, Evonne was once his first love—the very person who saved his life long ago. Unbeknownst to him, that is only one of many truths she carries in silence, trapped by a curse that forbids her from ever revealing a single secret.