Traumatized and touch-averse, Ruelle has become the morally-gray princess she must be to survive her family and their evil kingdom. When a young enemy Captain is brought into her father's dungeon, she's ordered to interrogate him. But she sees him as a way to protect herself, in a nation where power and pleasure are the only currency. When she claims him, the handsome prisoner's sunshiny charm begins to soften Ruelle's edges in ways she never expected,...