hellbound

In the kingdom of Valnora, the royal family's lavish life hides the suffering of the people beneath the surface. Liora, the princess and heir to the throne, has been kept away from the truth for years, shielded from the horrors that her father, King Darius, has carefully concealed. As she nears her sixteenth birthday and prepares to take her place as queen, Liora learns the shocking reality of her kingdom's plight: the lower class is plagued by poverty, disease, and despair, while the royals live in excess.

When Liora meets Elias,the son of a rebel leader, she finds herself torn between the life she's known and a new, dangerous world that threatens everything she's been taught to believe. Elias reveals that an illness is spreading across the kingdom, and worse, her father has known about it all along. As Liora's feelings for Elias deepen, she begins to uncover the truth about her mother, Selene, the rightful queen who mysteriously disappeared years ago. What she discovers shakes her to the core: her father isn't the true ruler of Valnora. He took the throne after Selene's disappearance, but he's ruled with an iron fist, hiding dark secrets that have kept the people of Valnora in chains.

Now, faced with the harsh reality of her kingdom and the shocking truth about her family, Liora must make an impossible choice: support her father and uphold a legacy built on lies, or stand with the rebels and risk losing everything, including the love she's found in Elias. In a kingdom torn between loyalty and rebellion, Liora must decide where her heart truly lies and whether she can become the queen her people desperately need.