The Crown She Refused

Her father's executioner drags her to his kingdom as a "guest of honor" — a polite word for prisoner. Eleanor hides a stolen blade under his pillow and swears to use it. Henry, the man who beheaded her father, leaves the knife exactly where she put it and tells her to sleep well. What starts as a war between a captive princess and the conqueror king becomes something neither of them can undo.