The Return of the Exile (When the Exiles Return #1)
Mia Rosh
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Explicit open door [?]
· 1 rating · 363 pages · Published: 12 Mar 2026
Once a warrior. Once a trusted ally of the king.
Now he returns as something far more dangerous.
The kingdom believes the Exiles were monsters — banished for crimes too terrible to forgive. The gates between worlds were sealed, the war forgotten, and peace rebuilt on silence.
But peace built on lies never lasts.
Liana, daughter of the king, has lived her life within palace walls, raised on stories of heroism and sacrifice. She is loyal, strong, and bound by duty — yet she has always felt that something about the past does not fit.
The night the portal opens, everything changes.
Jeremiah steps back into a world that betrayed him. Hardened by exile and shaped by forces no mortal should survive, he carries the mark of the abyss — and secrets powerful enough to shatter the throne.
To the court, he is a threat.
To the king, he is a ghost from a buried war.
To Liana… he is something she was never meant to face.
Drawn together by fate, suspicion, and a dangerous, unspoken pull, Liana and Jeremiah find themselves at the center of a growing storm. Creatures stir beyond the sealed gates. Shadows gather in the forests. And whispers of the Exiles spread through the kingdom once more.
But the greatest danger may not be the monsters outside the walls.
It may be the truth.
As loyalty clashes with desire and the past refuses to remain buried, Liana must decide whether to stand beside her father — or the man who survived the darkness and came back changed.
Because when the Exiles return, they do not come alone.
And some loves are powerful enough to either save a kingdom… or destroy it.
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The 'When the Exiles Return' series
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