While celebrating his brother's bonding and crowning ceremony, Shanden wakes the next morning feeling out of sorts. His back is burning up and he starts feeling a little strange. Thinking it's his home city calling to him, he leaves the palace and returns to his post. When he arrives, there's something strange happening in Tandora. The flowers they cultivate are all ten feet tall and there is a strange purple haze hovering in the air. Is this remnants of the evil overlord's magic? With all of this happening, his mother decides it is time for her to find him a bond mate to unite the two continents. Instead he finds his mate right under his nose. After realizing she is his bond mate and the wedding plans commence, she vanishes suspciously without a trace.