BETRAYAL HEARTS, RISING FLAMES

miliar path leading to the village. Years had stretched thin the memories of home

said to cure the ailment that had gripped Elara's family-an ailment that had left her mother frail and her father silent in suff

are, the joyous reunion he dream

e arm of a man clad in the city's wealth-Lord Riven. The same Elara who had whispered promi

n his throat when he ca

gaze cold and distant.

cracked with desperation. "I foun

olve. "It's over, Alaric. I'm married now. T

ove had moved on, married to another. Worse still, rumors whispered that the same

rtbreak, but of fierce determination. This was n