Galahad is the elite intelligence agency’s premier battle-mage—a lethal weapon of the state. But politics is a dirty game, and as a pawn of the crown, he is forcefully sold off as a political bridegroom to the notorious Grand Duchess of the Frozen North.

Ice-cold and fiercely unapproachable, the Grand Duchess carries a monumental secret: she is the prophesied “Key to Defeat the Demon King and Save the World.” To capture her heart and secure his political survival, Galahad decides to use the only strategy he knows: deploying his signature, jaw-dropping brand of unhinged, high-intensity insanity.

There’s just one tiny, agonizing problem.

As a master of aura who incinerates ambient mana, the Grand Duchess is essentially a walking hazard for mages. Simply holding her hand sends a searing, bone-crushing jolt of blinding agony straight through a wizard’s entire nervous system. But for Galahad, pain is just another variable in the equation.

“I want to touch her again. A little longer this time—”

Armed with supreme magical skill, an alarming disregard for personal safety, and a dangerously high tolerance for pain, Galahad dives headfirst into wooing the world’s most dangerous ice queen, one agonizingly intimate touch at a time.