She Was Born in the Shadows - Now the World Will Kneel.
In a land of magic and chaos, a divine Queen rises from the ashes of the Undercity with one goal: to unite the powerful and wild, fractured Sovereign Isle under her reign. Armed with unmatched power, unwavering purpose, and a council of fiercely devoted (and dangerously conflicted) warriors, she's building a council and an empire from nothing - one blood oath, one battlefield, and one broken heart at a time.
But when loyalty clashes with love, and ancient rituals demand impossible sacrifices, can the Queen hold her new empire together... or will the weight of her crown destroy everything she's worked to build?
Lust. Power. Passion. Politics. Love.
Welcome to the birth of the Sovereign Empire.
Charlotte Claridge lives a life dictated by her stepmother's whims. Sent to live with one family member after another, she finally arrives in Scotland, on the doorstep of a crumbling estate abandoned by its owner. With her aunt, she spends her days mending curtains and peeling potatoes, a quiet existence that changes with the appearance of a carriage bearing a coat of arms.
From out of the carriage falls Lord Hartley Cowden, Baron Aldburgh. Drunk, unconscious, and bleeding, Charlotte and her aunt carry him into his ancestral home. As he recovers in Charlotte's care, Hartley confesses to a crime that nearly sent him spiralling towards his grave. But can she entrust him with her own secrets while coaxing him back from the dead?