She's a princess with a broken engagement. His proposal is too tempting to refuse.

Sahar Raddan is the daughter of the Inetian emperor. When her arranged engagement is broken, she's no longer considered marriage material-or good for much at all.

Then Jianyu Liang, an obnoxiously handsome noble from distant Zhonghua, arrives in her city, and makes a shocking proposal: a fake engagement. He'll use his status to return Sahar to favor if she helps him track down a missing book of ancient magic-a book he believes was stolen by the great traitor of Ineti . . . who also happens to be Sahar's brother.

With nothing left to lose, Sahar agrees to Jianyu's proposal and is swept into an intricate game of intrigue, lies, and dangerous magic. Now Sahar and Jianyu must work together to recover the book before it falls into the wrong hands, while also contending with their growing feelings for each other-and whether their engagement is quite so fake after all.

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