Having lost Princess Hosanni, Prince Meleon Kristekon rides into Diakrinth to honor her memory. And to outrun his guilt over his patrol partner's death. While he risks his life to protect Diakrinth's daughters and ensure taxes are collected fairly, a mystery emerges on his estranged, eldest son's villa--a boy with Hosanni's laughing eyes and Meleon's rare blue undertone to his purple skin. The boy bears his younger son's name, Havan, and is the age his baby would've been, but a mortician swore Hosanni was cremated while pregnant with Havan. Indeed, the boy is Princess Hosanni's son and destined to become the next Kristos and the Bridegroom of Lady Veritas. That requires he grow up to be a man of honor, yet the more Meleon fights for the young prince, the more Emi's hand seems bent on giving the child over to Hades and a wolf's dead heart and total ruin.