Of Thorns and Broken Things (гет)

Princess Harriet had been married to the misanthropic Earl of Kriemhild for almost her entire life.
Fate, duty and vows she did not understand bound her to a man she had never met, long before she knew what any of it meant. A man who seems to hold nothing but contempt for her, and yet was the only one who could offer her protection from the Dark Lord.
She was not supposed to meet him until years later, but life was seldom as merciful as it was supposed to be.
At sixteen, Harriet has to somehow navigate a cold, lonely marriage, the unforgiving attention of courtiers and their viperous wives, and the challenges of growing into a spirited, opinionated woman longing for agency in a time that did not like to afford women either - all while the dark wizard who killed her family and left her scarred is digging his claws deeper and deeper into the lands her crumbling marriage is supposed to protect.