prince allen has trained his entire life to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious mother who has made their kingdom one of the wealthiest and most influential in the empire for the past few years he has trained to become the new consort of the high king the only thing no one prepared him for was the stubborn arrogant high king himself who declares allen useless and throws him out of courthigh king sarrica is ruling an empire at war and that war will grow exponentially worse if his carefully laid plans do not come to fruition hes overwhelmed and needs help as much as he hates to admit it but it must be someone like his late consort a soldier someone who understands war who is not unfamiliar with or afraid of the harsher elements of rule what he doesnt need is the delicate pretty little politician foisted on him right as everything goes wrongpublisher note this is a highly expanded completely rewritten version of the free short that was previously available under the same title