Connor and his eldest daughter, Ciara, are reunited after nine long years. The last time he saw her, she was only twelve years old and about to set out on a dangerous cross-country journey to escape from the end of a disastrous war. Neither of them expected to see the other alive again.
When she finally returned home it was on the wings of anger. She was her father's child, full of a fiery determination to protect all those she had grown to love in her absence. He'd sent her to Oseille to live. How dare he start a war that threatened to take everything away from her once again!
But after the anger and the tears, she was still his daughter and she was still the same little girl who had always looked up to him and who wanted nothing more than for her father to be proud of her. When she'd been little, he'd never been able to tell her how much he loved her. She was a bastard child. She was Deirdre's, not his, because that's how things had to be if he wanted to keep his throne. But, now, nothing mattered more than his family and he would sacrifice all he had to keep his daughter safe.
Connor is a red fox and Ciara's mother is a swift fox, which is why she looks the way she does.
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