In other words they give each other the benefit of the doubt and discover, with a great sense of humour, that a person’s character is more important than the looks – well done, Ms Draven, very well done indeed! If only you continued with that line of thinking I would have nothing to criticize at all! Fortunately they are intelligent enough to know that beauty is in the eye of beholder and appearances can be deceptive. Still Brishen and Ildiko are forced to marry because it is in the best interest of their respective kingdoms. For humans Brishen, the minor Kai prince, is as hideous as a dead eel and very dangerous to boot. For Kai, the ancient race of humanoid monsters, Ildiko, a human niece of the Gauri king, is as ugly as a pink, soft-shelled mollusk used by them for fabric dyes. I suppose the premise is the biggest asset of Radiance its first half can be called ‘the beast and the beast’ and I love such twists of popular tropes. Yes, my dears, another romance book, this time a fantasy one -it seems I am on a romance roll this month! 🙂
Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage.
Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty.
Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over.
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