Ashes of the Crown

In the kingdom of Elderspire, Princess Nirina and Kael Arden grew up worlds apart. She the heir to the throne, and he a humble baker's boy who once made her laugh in the palace kitchens. After tragedy takes his parents, Kael is taken in by his uncle, the Queen's head knight, and grows into a disciplined, loyal protector. Years later, when Kael returns as a newly appointed royal knight, the childhood bond between him and Nirina resurfaces as something deeper, more dangerous.

But their love is forbidden.
The King, driven by jealousy from the Queen's secret past with Kaels's uncle, refuses to let another knight come near his daughter. He betroths Nirina to a foreign prince, determined to crush any connection between her and Kael. As political tensions rise, secrets unravel, and old heartbreaks resurface, Nirina and Kael find themselves caught between duty and desire.

When rebellion strikes the palace and the King moves to eliminate Kael, Nirina must choose whether to obey the crown she was born to wear or fight for the boy who once held her heart with flour-covered hands.

A story of forbidden love, generational scars, and the chains of power, this tale follows a princess and her knight as they defy a kingdom built to keep them apart.