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The Last War Was a Wedding: A Political Wedding Before Three Warring Crowns
Paperback
Series: The Hearthbound Mandate, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 26 2026
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three crowns say one wedding will end the war. The armies have already arrived dressed as guests.
Six days after returning a moon to the sky, Ione Venn finds enchanted wedding silk spread across the breakfast table with one demand:
A wedding witnessed by all three crowns.
The ceremony could settle succession, reopen roads, protect mixed families, release dragon lanes, and end generations of conflict. It could also turn Ione's household into permanent public infrastructure-and make private love answerable to every government that needs a symbol.
Jex will not let marriage become route access. Vauren will not let partnership become command. Lysenne will not let recognition become inherited invitation. Ione will not stand at the center and pretend one signature can safely hold everyone else's power.
But Edrava Three-Bells has built a War Mandate that transforms armies into wedding processions, weapons into ceremonial objects, and invasion into etiquette. To survive the final ceremony, four lovers must arrive separately, choose freely, and keep every exit open while three nations attempt to conquer them without drawing a blade.
The Last War Was a Wedding concludes The Hearthbound Mandate with political spectacle, military processions, queer polyamorous romance, hard-won intimacy, dragons, fairy law, magical contracts, dry humor, and a complete series payoff.
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