A MARRIAGE OF MARIGOLDS: An Enemies-to-Lovers Historical Romance (An Evening Romance Book 3)

A shrine of secrets. A garden of grief. A love neither of them chose, but both came to need. Anika Sisodia has spent her whole life being told to hide her sharpest gifts. So when peace between her father's kingdom and the Mughal Empire is bought with her hand in marriage, she rides north prepared to become nothing more than a hostage in silk. Instead she finds Jahandar Shah: a governor twice her age, feared by his own household, rumored to have poisoned the wife he never speaks of. What she doesn't expect is a man who tends his dead wife's rose garden with his own hands, who reads her secret poetry and calls it a gift rather than a scandal, who offers her choice instead of command on their wedding night. But peace is never simple. A conspiracy she cannot ignore threatens to unravel everything: a court physician with poison in his medicine chest, a father secretly plotting rebellion behind the very marriage meant to end it, and a scheme built to destroy her reputation using the one talent she trusted most. As marigolds bloom across a palace built on secrets, Anika must decide how far her cleverness, her courage, and her heart are willing to go for a husband she was never meant to love. A Marriage of Marigolds is a sweeping enemies-to-lovers historical romance of hidden grief, court intrigue, and a marriage that becomes, against every expectation, a true and hard-won love.