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Trust was a difficult thing for Ophelia Xander. From a young age, the concept of it never sat well with her. Especially when her father told her her mother deserved to die, and did nothing as she did. Now 23, her heart of ice has learned to thaw a little more around special people. But what she thought she'd buried in snow years ago manages to resurface when an unwanted someone sends a letter. A someone who happened to be the Crown Heir to the very empire she's been fighting against her whole life. As Ophelia learns to confront her demons, she learns things aren't all as they seem. And that the Crown Heir might not be the monster he was eleven years ago. A heart of ice can never be fully freed unless the ice melts. And the Crown Heir to the Yerpen's flame just might be strong enough to thaw what Ophelia thought was meant to be frozen.A battle for freedom just turned into a battle of desire.…

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Ever since she's been diagnosed with brain cancer, Estelle Cordelia has lost the meaning of trust and love. Every "I love you" was because she had cancer. Every tear, touch, and hug was because of her cancer. Every time she started a conversation, it always led back to cancer. It was bad enough that her family smothered her, taking her freedom from her. But her self value? That left the moment that tumour had been revealed. She would've been happy to die. Hell, she did. Her doctors had given her a way to save herself. The price? Her ability to move. They told her it would only happen if someone made a mistake while removing the tumor, but it scared her nonetheless. So she decided in the span of a minute: If she was going to die, she would do so on her own terms. Not because of a fucking disease, and not because of a mistake that would cost her, her freedom. She'd lost enough of it because of the disease, she wouldn't lose it again. And so she jumped. She jumped off the building, and let death wrap its arms around her. But death wasn't what she thought it would've been. She expected darkness, peace. But she woke up in a field of golden flowers while the sun rose. And in front of her, was a man. She could only assume he was the Grim Reaper, but he looked too young, too naive. And, most of all, he was surprised. It seemed he had the question she had: What was she doing here?…

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Ophelia has always had trust issues. But it all started when her father, the person who was supposed to love and care for her mother and her for the rest of his life, allowed the excuse of an empire called the Yerpen to kill her mother, his own wife, to burn her on a pyre before her very eyes. After the death of her mother, Ophelia Xander has stopped at nothing to destroy the monsters that took her mother from her. Stopped at nothing to destroy the Yerpen. And when the chance comes to kill the very heir of the Yerpen who sentenced her mother to death, she can't resist. The only thing stopping her: Her superiors, who breath down her neck every day, threatening her life--in turn, her mother being avenged, if she killed him. Second was the feelings she's been starting to feel for him.____Alaric Yerpen has never thought his family was doing the wrong thing. Which was why he supported them, and caught his father's attention which made him Crown Prince and Heir to his father's throne. That is, until he met Narelle. Alaric loved Narelle. Deeply. She helped him open his eyes to his father's wrongs, to how the Yerpen stood for all the wrong things. And Alaric realised his mistake, and decided to abdicate.But the day he decides to tell his father he wants to abdicate, Narelle is killed. His father had found out that he and Narelle had been seeing each other, and wanted to end it. "She isn't of royal blood," was what he'd imagined his father saying. And when Narelle had been executed in front of his very eyes, as he watched her heart stop, he knew what had to be done.He was going to destroy his father. Not matter the cost.But falling in love with his sworn enemy Ophelia Xander, someone who's wanted to kill him for god knew how long, was not part of his plan.…