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Like a hog awarded to an auction’s highest bidder, the North’s bastard prince was dragged away by Laodicea's Queen. And, without a shred of remorse, she married the poor prince among the gardens of her kingdom, whose people hated the very idea of swordsmanship: the only thing he knew. After eighteen moons, they hardly spoke, lest it be a squabble—intimacy was none. So what will become of the once-Northern-prince when he learns his wife is expecting a child?