{"product_id":"the-blood-price","title":"The Blood Price","description":"\u003cp\u003eI bury my queen beneath a gray sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDays later, I know she was murdered. Poisoned wine from Kambria, designed to look like the Blight devouring the continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy dawn, my army rides south for blood, for justice, for the satisfaction of my blade at King Hagen's throat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Hagen is ready, and when I press my steel to his neck, he plays his final card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Blood Price. A life for a life. A bride for a bride. A queen for a queen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe offers me Naia of Iafros, princess of a fallen kingdom, wrapped in sacrificial crimson, with sea-glass eyes and secrets burning behind them. Something inside me catches fire, something I thought had died long before my wife did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI should take his head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, I take Naia, against every instinct, under the stricken gaze of my sons and the silence of an army that followed me here for vengeance, not this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is terrified of me. Every mile from the sea she fades a little more, staring into water like it holds answers I'm not meant to hear. And when a storm breaks and she walks into it — arms open, face to the sky, utterly unafraid — I see something in her that I have no name for. Something luminous and ancient and magnificent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething I will destroy kingdoms to protect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's when I realize. She isn't the Blood Price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGods help us both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Legends \u0026 Lore Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54647551820148,"sku":"SSU-FW-01-EB","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/8532\/6452\/files\/9.jpg?v=1779579564","url":"https:\/\/shop.legendsandlorepublishing.com\/products\/the-blood-price","provider":"Legends \u0026 Lore Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}