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Evening Light, Burning Desires
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 7 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some love stories are beautiful.
Others become immortal.
In the storm-shadowed kingdom of Eryndale, Princess Evelisse Laurent has spent her entire life carrying the weight of a crown forged through war, grief, and silence. Feared by enemies and admired by her people, she has mastered the art of surviving without ever truly being understood.
Until the battlefield gives her an enemy she was never meant to love.
Prince Elias Ashbourne of Valedorn is captured after a brutal war between their kingdoms leaves him wounded beneath winter skies. Imprisoned within the depths of Ravenshire Palace, he becomes the object of Evelisse's hatred - a living reminder of bloodshed, loss, and everything war has stolen from her.
But hatred is dangerous when loneliness begins speaking through it.
What begins with cruelty slowly transforms into something neither of them can escape. Through midnight conversations, stolen moments beneath candlelight, and a love powerful enough to silence kingdoms, Evelisse and Elias become each other's peace in a world built upon violence.
Yet some loves are too forbidden for history to forgive.
As war deepens and betrayal rises within palace walls, the two lovers are forced to choose between duty and devotion, crown and heart, survival and each other.
Evening Light, Burning Desires is a hauntingly beautiful royal romance about grief, emotional intimacy, sacrifice, and a love so eternal that not even death can separate it.
For readers who love:
- tragic royal romances
- enemies-to-lovers
- emotionally devastating love stories
- poetic literary fiction
- slow-burn intimacy
- dark castle aesthetics
- unforgettable endings
Some stories end with goodbye.
This one ends with eternity.
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