She was sent to kill him. She built the case that saved him instead.
Elin Voss has spent four years as one of the Rebellion's most capable operatives, shaped by grief and directed toward a single purpose: infiltrate the court of Kael, the shapeshifting dragon-king of Vaelthorn, and end his reign quietly. The method is clean. The cover is solid. The mission is straightforward.
It stops being straightforward the moment she arrives.
Because Kael is already being poisoned - by his own court, with a compound that is slowly burning out the bond between the man and the dragon. And the realm he governs, the one she has been told is better off without him, is held together by treaty structures and seventy years of careful governance that will fracture the moment he falls. And the Rebellion that built her for this purpose knew all of it, and sent her anyway.
Elin has sixteen doses of a secondary poison and eight weeks and a king who gives her more room than she knows what to do with, who reads the same histories she reads, who has been spending his mornings in a library that she keeps finding herself in.
The mission she was given and the mission she is actually on turn out to be different things entirely.
The Serpent and the Lark is a slow-burn fantasy romance built on hidden identity, court intrigue, and the specific complexity of two people who find each other in the middle of a situation designed to keep them enemies. It is a story about the cost of intelligence - what you do when the full picture contradicts the briefing - and about the gap between the person you were built to be and the person you choose to become.
For readers who like their romance earned through honesty rather than grand gestures, their fantasy courts layered with genuine politics, and their dragon-shifters approached with full attention to what it actually means to be something that old.
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