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The Wolf Beside the Throne
Description:
History crowned one sister. It erased the other.
When Queen Victoria ascends the throne, the world sees a young queen bound by silk, ceremony, and expectation.
What it does not see is the figure standing just out of sight-boots polished, jaw set, eyes sharp as a blade.
Theodora "Theo" Anne was never meant to be remembered.
Too sharp-tongued for court.
Too masculine for comfort.
Too dangerous to be allowed softness.
While Victoria learns to rule in public, Theo learns to survive in the shadows-reading men before they speak, power before it strikes, and danger before it dares approach the crown. She does not curtsy well. She does not smile on command. And she will not be reshaped for anyone's comfort.
As whispers coil through palace halls and pressure mounts to correct the queen's unacceptable sister, the bond between the two women is tested by politics, scandal, and the unspoken cost of loving someone the world refuses to name.
Because a crown can be stolen.
A throne can fall.
But a wolf?
A wolf does not kneel.
And when history turns its back, she stands beside the throne-ready to protect it, or burn it down.