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'“It will allow you to serve your nation. It will give any possible scandal time to die down.”
She was marrying him off to prevent him from tarnishing their reputation. The youngest shadowhand in a century. A prodigy in his field. He was now a source of shame. And who better to do the job? he thought bitterly. He had nearly started a war, so letting him be the sacrificial pawn that blocked it would be a fitting penance. And he had certainly been brought up to play political games. Now she was asking him to play them on a slightly different board. He let his gaze drift.
“To whom am I promised?”'
Essek is married off to prevent a war to a man he meets at the altar. So far no one knows that he was the Assembly's contact in Rosohna. So far he doesn't know whose case against the Assembly his confession helped. Can he navigate this web of secrets in an unfamiliar land, or will he be caught in it instead?