This novella is the story of how Grom and Nalia fell in love, despite being forced to mate because of their position as third-generation firstborn Royals of their respective houses, the tragic accident and the ruse between the kingdoms,. I liked it, despite being in Grom's POV (I'm not sure I like Grom very much). Nalia's is a fun, smart and free-spirited character and she doesn't appreciate the restrictions she'll be under after her marriage, and that's one of the things that furthers the tragedy that happens at the end (although, if you've read the first novel, of Poseidon, you kind of know that not everything is what it seems). At first, they hate each other over some misunderstanding that happened when they were children, but that is quickly settled, especially since they both feel the 'pull' towards each other. Nalia questions the pull, calling it a mindless attraction, an animal instinct that binds them together even if under normal circunstancies they wouldn't tolerate each other, but apparently both their feelings for each other are real - let's see if that remains true for Nalie after Of Triton. I think Grom is an idiot. He is kind of controlling over her and wants her to submit to him, which does not go well with her free-spirited personality. I'm betting that, and the reason they fought at the end of the book, is one of the reasons why Nalia did what she did. I think that, once free of the pull, she found out that she was not really that much in love with Grom after all. In the novel, they say the pull goes both ways, but I doubt that. I think it can very well be one-sided. But let's see about that after the second novel. Anyway, a nice novella, that sheds some lights over the events that led to Of Poseidon.