How do you destroy a monster without becoming one?

Alairiss is gaining fame fast as a pit fighter but as much as they cheer her, she knows she'll never be a prime; the highest class in the nation of Aventera. That is until she finds out she's the last heir to a deceased traitorous house. With a war on the horizon, the royal family chooses her to marry their third son. She is supposed to appease dissenters who believe her house should still be in power but instead, she finds herself deep in a plot to assassinate the king. The key in these plans; the youngest prince. To save the nation she will have to make him fall for her, which may prove to be her most difficult fight yet.