In the kingdom of Amarra, a failed rebellion against the ruling matriarchy has left the nobility short of men. Women now take husbands by capturing them from neighboring kingdoms. Olerra is a warrior princess with a claim to the throne, and she means to kidnap Andrastus, the mild poet prince of neighboring Brutus, to outpace her scheming cousin.
A drunken swap puts his older brother in the carriage instead. Sanos is Brutus's trained warrior heir. He has his own reason to hide his real name: word of his capture reaching his father would be worse than the capture itself. He plays the poet's part while he looks for a way out.
Confined together, captor and captive start to read past what each assumed about the other. The court intrigue behind Olerra's claim keeps raising the stakes on the deception. It moves fast, a light, bingeable romantasy built on enemies forced into close quarters and morally grey choices on both sides of a marriage neither of them chose.
Wrath and Fury opens with this book. It is Tricia Levenseller's first novel written for adult readers rather than teens.