The Queen She Buried

He declared her dead to get rid of her. She came back as a duchess to make him pay. Yara was sixteen when the crown prince chose her out of a crowd. Eighteen when he had her declared dead and sold to the iron mines of the Western Reach. Twenty-nine when she walked into the royal court as the Duchess of Ash, in a dress that cost more than a warship, holding a ledger that could take down every man in the room. Ruen doesn't recognize her at first. When he does, he does not tell anyone. He offers her a deal instead: silence, in exchange for staying at court as his wife in name only. She takes it. She intends to take everything else too. A year later they are still married. She has his crown. He has her name on his door. Neither of them can say whether they hate each other or have simply stopped being able to stand anywhere else. A dark enemies to lovers fantasy romance for readers who like their revenge slow, courted, and married.