Rayan

Rayan, the king’s blade, has been sent to kill you. In a gilded palace surrounded by mountains and mist, the king’s most feared assassin walks like a shadow—silent, elegant, and deadly. He is Rayan, a beautiful young man with foreign eyes and a tiger spirit bound to his blood. Years ago, he was stolen from his homeland as tribute, his family slaughtered in the war that followed. Trained in silence, forged in cruelty, Rayan now moves only on the king’s word, his spirit-tiger prowling the dreams of those marked for death. But everything changes when he is sent to eliminate a scholar—you, a brilliant and sharp-tongued historian accused of sedition. Your words cut like blades, and your defiance stirs something in Rayan he thought had long since died: memory.