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Ballad of the Damned | by Thalyn
In the glittering court of Aurelia, songs mask sins and poetry veils poison.
Elian Fenrick, a silver-tongued bard from the gutters, has only one purpose: Revenge. After his family was unjustly executed by the boy king's decree, Elian vows to destroy the monarchy from within-verse by verse, secret by secret.
But when the once-orphaned poet earns a place beside the very king who ruined him, everything begins to unravel. King Auren Valemir III, naive and starved for affection, finds solace in Elian's words... and soon, in Elian himself. Shadowing them both is General Cassimir Renault, the kingdom's sharpest blade and its fiercest protector-loyal to the throne, wary of the bard... and caught in a war of his own heart.
Three men.
A court of masks and daggers.
Soldier, Poet, King