L'Épouse des Quatre Royaumes

For centuries, shifters and humans waged relentless war. Every peace treaty was merely a truce before the next bloodbath, and each generation grew up hating the other. To the east, the Kingdom of Eldoria was the last great human realm. Surrounding it stretched the lands of the four shifter clans: the Bears, guardians of the mountains; the Wolves, masters of the wild forests; the Lions, sovereigns of the golden plains; and the Dragons, recluses in the volcanic peaks—as rare as they were feared. When the old king died without a male heir, his only daughter ascended the throne. Scarcely crowned, she inherited a kingdom on the verge of collapse. Harvests were dwindling, borders were constantly under attack, and the four clans were already gathering their armies. Another war would have doomed thousands of innocents. To avert the slaughter, an unprecedented pact was proposed. The young queen would become the living bond between the five peoples. According to the ancient laws of shifters, a marriage sealed between a clan chieftain and a ruler could not be broken without shattering the entire treaty. So she would have to marry a representative from each of the four clans: the Bear, the Wolf, the Lion, and the Dragon. None of them had truly chosen this union. The clan chieftains saw it as a necessary sacrifice. Humans spoke of humiliation. The shifters, for their part, considered this alliance a trial from which no one would emerge unscathed. From now on, the peace of the continent rested on a single woman... and on four men who had nothing in common. The silent protector. The unyielding Alpha. The flamboyant king. The inscrutable dragon. In a world where instincts were as powerful as ambitions, where clan rivalries were sometimes older than the kingdoms themselves, every glance, every word, and every misstep could reignite war. Because if one of the four marriages failed... The treaty would fall. And with it, the peace that everyone claimed to want to preserve.

更新於 September 23, 2026