The Crownfall Rift

A bond neither of them chose. A kingdom that will kill for it.When a rift tears open between two warring kingdoms, it doesn't just split the sky. It binds two strangers together in ways neither can escape.Aurentha never asked for the magic living at her fingertips, the kind that senses truth in silence, and darkness in a stranger's heart. She never asked to feel a second heartbeat pulsing against her own. And she certainly never asked to fall for the one person standing on the wrong side of the rift.Karel is a prince bound to a crown he never wanted, and now to a bond he can't control. One that marks him as a target to a man who has spent his life plotting to take everything from him.As the bond deepens, it starts bleeding into the world around them: a glow in silver, a shift in color, small betrayals they can't hide. And someone is watching. Someone who's been waiting a lifetime for exactly this kind of weakness.Crowns fall. Rifts don't close on their own. Karel and Aurentha must decide: is this bond worth protecting, or the fault line that brings both kingdoms down?