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Houses of the Fractured Realm
Book I: The Fractured Crown
A relic meant to prove loyalty shatters in Queen Aeryth Caelthryn's hands.
The realm calls it an omen.
The Order calls it a threat.
Aeryth calls it nothing at all - because admitting what she felt in that moment would mean admitting something inside her answered.
As western banners gather and House Ashmere presses a marriage proposal heavy with politics and hidden agendas, the court begins to shift beneath her feet. Alliances tighten. Whispers grow teeth. And somewhere in the dark, something ancient begins to watch.
At her side stands Lucian - the Crown's Blade. Bound by oath. Forged in discipline. Untouched by emotion.
Until now.
The closer Aeryth comes to unraveling, the more his oath strains against something it was never designed to endure. Distance was supposed to restore control. Instead, separation ignites a connection neither of them understands - one that bends loyalty, fractures restraint, and threatens to awaken a power the Order tried to erase from history.
Because once before, a Blade broke his oath for a woman like her.
And the realm nearly burned for it.
In a kingdom where bloodlines are manipulated, history is rewritten, and devotion is weaponized, Aeryth must decide what kind of queen she will become.
And Lucian must decide whether he belongs to his oath-
or to her.