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Crowned in Ashes
A forced union. A kingdom in ruins. A fire that refuses to die.
When nineteen-year-old Princess Elira is dragged in chains to the palace of the enemy king, all she has left is her fury. Her homeland, Ashenford, has been reduced to smoke and cinders. Her people starve, her father is missing, and her future? Signed away in a blood-soaked treaty that binds her to the man who destroyed everything.
King Alistair of Ashen Stone is feared across the continent-a cold tactician who rose from noble ashes to conquer empires. But Elira remembers a different version of him. Years ago, in the heart of a forest, a masked stranger with his voice saved her life and vanished. That voice haunts her now, because the man on the throne wears it like a crown.
Forced into marriage for political peace, Elira becomes queen in name but prisoner in truth. But she's no pawn. Beneath silks and smiles, she plots rebellion, gathering whispers, secrets, and hidden allies inside his stone fortress. Yet the more she sees of Alistair's rule-the cracks in his armor, the ghosts that follow him-the harder it becomes to ignore the truth: the man she hates might be the only one who truly understands her.
As war brews in the shadows and rebellion rises, Elira must decide where her loyalty lies-with the ashes of the past or the fire she's begun to build beside a king who might just burn for her.