The Flower of Alosha

Kay Logrial, the easygoing deputy captain of a poor frontier village's guard, has his quiet life overturned when Grand Duke Zigril Airiyeo C. Rainer—the emperor's peerless, scheming brother and first in line to the throne—storms into town seeking the legendary "Flower of Alosha," a bloom said to cause pregnancy in anyone who consumes it. What begins as a fleeting night of whim for the ruthless duke quickly becomes an obsession he cannot dismiss, dragging Kay from the outskirts of the kingdom to the capital of Edor, where royal intrigue and unnatural desire blur the line between captor and captivated.