Things we were meant to hate

For a hundred years, the kingdoms of Veyne and Ardent have been enemies. Elara Veyne has spent her life believing the Ardent family murdered her father and took her mother on the night their kingdom fell. Now, years later, she is sent to negotiate peace with the one person she was never supposed to meet—Prince Cassian Ardent. They hate each other from the moment they meet. But when a mysterious assassin strikes the fortress and leaves behind a message bearing the same symbol her missing mother once gave her, Elara realizes the history she knows may be a lie. Forced to investigate together, Elara and Cassian uncover a conspiracy buried beneath generations of war—and discover that their families may have been connected all along. As hatred slowly turns into attraction, then trust, and eventually something neither can deny, they must uncover the truth before the people manipulating them succeed in starting the war all over again. Because they were meant to be enemies. They were never meant to fall in love.