Before he was a king, he was just a prince with a dying people and an impossible problem. For over two decades, the Thrakorians searched humanity for the one thing they needed most - a cure for Ehrad, the disease slowly destroying their kind. Prince Kronus believed they'd finally found it. He was wrong. His lead scientist had been lying to him for years, chasing his own agenda while billions suffered. Now Kronus must start again. But the search for a cure isn't the only thing consuming him. There are questions he can't silence - about leadership, legacy, and the kind of ruler he's always wanted to become but never quite managed to be. He doesn't expect a human woman to be the one to make him face them.She comes crashing into his world like something he has no category for. And for the first time in his carefully controlled life, Prince Kronus finds himself genuinely uncertain - not about the future of his people, but about himself. Some cures have nothing to do with science.