House of Fate

Judit's duty is to protect the man chosen to join two powerful, feuding houses through marriage. Her feelings for his intended bride make that obligation far more complicated than it appears. Annika has been raised to look like an ideal future matriarch, but the role conceals an assassin trained for a very different purpose. When killings and abductions unsettle the balance between the houses, the two women are drawn into a search for whoever is driving the crisis. The danger reaches across star systems, where private ambition can destroy entire populations. Judit and Annika must navigate competing loyalties and hidden intentions while a love forbidden by their assigned roles threatens to change the futures others have chosen for them.