Son of the Dragon: The Definitive History of Mihnea cel Rău

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…But even then, a shadow had clung to her, a whisper of a vulnerability that now felt like a cruel premonition. He had been too young to understand the whispers of danger, too small to grasp the precariousness of her position, a woman of humble origins loved by a man of immense power and even greater enemies. If only she had been kept hidden, safe within the convent walls, away from the machinations of men and the jealousies of courts. But their yearning, their need for her light, had drawn her out into the unforgiving glare of their world, and the Arges had claimed her, a watery grave for a love that dared to bloom in forbidden soil.