THE TAINTED BLOODLINE
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Last published Sun, Jun 1, 2025
Crown her broken. Watch her bloom.
Kaya Zamora has everything: royal blood, beauty, and a gaping hole where her magic should be. At seventeen, she's mourning a sister who wore the crown Kaya was never meant to touch - and wielded the magic Kaya could never summon.
Born to chase wonder she could never catch, Kaya has spent her life stacking masks over the silence inside her. Now, thrust into the role of Crown Princess, she faces a kingdom that sees her lack before her light.
When her sharp-eyed grandmother exiles her to Cyrus Academy - a school seething with magic and ambition - Kaya vows to play the part: laugh, explore, pretend. Anything but feel.
But the Academy has no use for games.
It tears at her fears, strips away her armor, and demands the one thing she's never dared to offer: herself.
In a world that crowns only the powerful, can a girl without magic forge a legacy of her own?
Or will Kaya's bloodline - tainted, aching, and raw - consume her before she can rise?
A story of shattered crowns, silent grief, and the unrelenting search for wholeness.
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