Meet Adrian: The Prince Who Can’t Read His Own Kingdom’s Secrets

Meet Adrian: The Prince Who Can’t Read His Own Kingdom’s Secrets

Adrian has a gift most people would envy: he can see magic woven into every building, wall, and ward in the kingdom — the crystal formations, the ancient protective spells laid into stone, the slow fractures spreading through it all as that magic fails.

What he can’t do is read the ancient texts that might explain why.

For months, he’s been quietly obsessed with the kingdom’s failing magic, hiding in the palace library instead of preparing for the marriage his parents are pushing him toward. He knows the price of bread. He knows how many families are struggling.

He knows, better than almost anyone, exactly how much is breaking — he just can’t find the words that explain why.

Ten years ago, there was someone who could read those words as easily as breathing. Someone who taught him to see magic differently, whose gift and his own used to spark something neither of them could quite explain.

Then she disappeared, and he never stopped wondering what happened.

When she turns up again — sooner than a ball, sooner than either of them is ready for — Adrian starts to suspect the answers he’s been hunting for were never going to come from a book alone.

Character introductions continue every two weeks.

The Glass Slipper’s Secret is a fantasy romance retelling of Cinderella where the kingdom’s ancient magic is fading, Ella can see the magic in every living thing — including what people try to hide — and Ella and Adrian’s paths cross again long before any ball.