Elf magic is dead, and it's all his fault.

Forced from their ancestral home, the Runda Nor clan lives in the forest. Every winter is a struggle to survive while the High Elves live in a castle protected by magic. While the High Elves eat and drink forever, the Runda Nor die in droves.

Princess Radelia will do anything to help her people. She believes her father when he says war with the High Elves is the answer. There's no reasoning with High Elves, after all.

It becomes personal when the High Elves hold her ex-boyfriend and best friend hostage. Disguising herself as an ambassador, the princess enters Cardhon Nimloth to find that nothing is what it seems.

Night after night, the High Elves celebrate under the stars while their king lurks in the shadows. They say he killed his father. That he talks to himself and laughs when no one else is laughing. To remain king, he must restore magic to the elves before the magic of Cardhon Nimloth is depleted.

Ettrian was never one to hope, but Radelia Bellas can change even the most stubborn of people. Even a lonely king like him can dream.