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You turned your mother into a bear. Did you really think there wouldn't be consequences?
The ancient magic has been broken, the tapestry is mended, and Queen Elinor is human once more. But for Princess Merida of DunBroch, the celebration is cut short. Humiliated by her behavior during the Highland Games, the three powerful clan lords are on the brink of launching a brutal civil war.
The sentence from her mother is absolute: Merida is officially grounded for life. No bow. No arrows. No freedom. Just a desk dungeon, an endless stack of parchment, and the agonizing task of writing dignified apology letters to her furious neighbors.
DunBroch is weak, isolated, and fracturing from within. To secure their fragile borders, Queen Elinor secretly invites a powerful foreign ally to the war room: King Gauthier of West Francia.
Battle-scarred and legendary on the battlefield, Gauthier is a king unlike any Merida has ever met. He is an absolute enigma a brilliant, ruthless military mind who transforms into a chaotic, unbothered dork the second the swords are put away. He folds origami paper birds just to chuck them at Merida's face, claims seasonal allergies defeat him faster than an army, and handles her volcanic temper with pure, infuriating amusement.
But when the rebellious clans launch a violent sneak attack, the games are officially over.Left with no choice but to defy her grounding, Merida must step onto a real, blood-soaked battlefield for the very first time. Clad in a suit of custom midnight-blue armor courtesy of a certain lovesick Frankish king she must learn that surviving a war takes much more than just a perfect bullseye.
Can the fiery Princess save her kingdom alongside her chaotic protector, or will the harsh realities of war change her forever?