For generations, the Moreland family has maintained an elaborate fiction: the Eternal Prince, a powerful magical guardian who keeps Lenore safe from greedy neighbors. When a clever stranger discovers the truth and installs himself as that fictional prince, seventeen-year-old Viola Moreland must negotiate with the charming impostor while concealing the ruse from an entire kingdom. The magic that sustains Lenore is fading, and the false Prince may be the only one who can revive it.

Viola Moreland is practical, fiercely loyal, and burdened by the weight of a family legacy built on necessary lies. Though cynical by nature, she has a sharp wit and a genuine capacity for self-sacrifice. Later heroines—Rosia in book three—bring their own conflict between duty and conscience, enriching the series with complementary perspectives.

Across three books the series follows different members of Lenore's world—from Viola's battle of wills with the unnamed Prince, to the political intrigues of a neighboring empire whose magic is dying, to a tender-hearted would-be assassin who discovers that the enemy she was sent to kill holds the key to her homeland's salvation. Each story deepens the lore of Lenore's bonding magic and explores themes of loyalty, deception, and the courage to trust across dividing lines.