Maria Tyrell/Lyonel Baratheon/Baelor Targaryen
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When King Daeron the Good sends Prince Baelor Targaryen to Highgarden for the tournament that is to decide who gets Maria Tyrell’s hand, no one expects the visit to change the fate of three lives.
Baelor finds in Maria a girl who sees beyond the prince, the heir, and the burden of duty. Maria finds in him a loving witness for everything she wishes to be. And Lyonel Baratheon, wild, loyal, and with time impossible to ignore, becomes not the storm she once feared, but one that refuses to let her disappear into the life chosen for her.
As years go by, love, marriage, duty, scandal, and power bind them together in ways none of them can escape. As old decisions begin to bleed into the future of the Reach and the Iron Throne, Maria must learn what it means to be daughter, wife, mother, heir and above else — herself.
What once seemed sacred must mature into life stripped from fantasy. And for it to happen, a lot of it has to die.
Duty that once stand in their way is the very thing that must bind them together.
A story of impossible love, political consequence, loyalty, womanhood, and the bitter truth that all three of them have to learn the hard way – one need not intend harm to do it.
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Prince Baelor Targaryen is learning to begin again after the death of his beloved mother and the final parting from the woman who awakened in him everything beautiful-and everything ugly. With Valarr's wedding drawing near, his father's rule weighing ever more heavily upon his shoulders, and his poisoned wife fading before his eyes, Baelor must discover what kind of man he can be when honor alone is no longer enough.
Meanwhile, Maria Tyrell is returning to Highgarden with Lyonel Baratheon and their children, determined to build the life they have chosen for themselves. But love in Westeros cannot exist apart from duty, blood, inheritance, or the eyes of the realm-and the world they hope to make will demand more from them than either expected.
As old enemies stir, Bloodraven's shadow stretches across the kingdom, and a fragile new order struggles to take root, Maria once again enters Baelor's world.
This time, she is neither a threat to his duties nor a crack in his honor.
She is a part of both.
For a time, they may even believe they have finally learned how to live with what cannot be changed.
Until everything changes again.
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