She paid him no particular attention. He found this surprisingly difficult to forget.

A spirit does not age. A prince cannot abandon his throne. Most love stories end when two people find each other. This one is about what comes after, and how two people hold on when the very things that brought them together threaten to pull them apart.

In an ancient Southeast Asian-inspired kingdom where spirits walk among mortals, Sein spends her days in the Palace Archives, which suits her perfectly. She has little patience for court gossip or the parade of eligible young lords her mother keeps producing, and she assumes the Crown Prince is every bit as arrogant as the rest. To her annoyance, Zeya refuses to behave like the prince she expected. What begins as a shared pursuit of a centuries-old murder mystery, traded in the quiet of the Archives, slowly becomes something neither of them dares to name.

Then Sein wakes as Spirit of Cloth, with no memory of the life she once lived. As fragments of her past begin to return, so do memories of a prince she once loved. When news of unrest reaches her, she chooses to return to the capital, enlisting along the way under a borrowed name in the company of a legendary General carrying secrets of his own.

Finding each other was never the hardest part.

Told from both sides, in one complete story. Zeya's chapters revisit key moments they shared and reveal the unseen life of the Crown Prince, and everything he could never say aloud.

For readers of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries and Radiance, and for anyone still thinking about Goblin.