Dark Shadows
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Last published Mon, Nov 17, 2025
For the first time in its history, the kingdom of Ibiri crowns a woman as heir-and the neighboring empire of Sovin vows that she will never rule.
Through years of manipulation, propaganda, and bloodshed, Sovin turns Princess Eloiza into an enemy of her own people, until the day she comes of age and invasion becomes inevitable.
As borders collapse and terror sweeps through her homeland, Ibiri's desperate nobles force the king to accept the one fate their bloodline has feared for centuries: a pact with the enemy.
To buy peace, Eloiza is sent to Sovin as the future bride of the very prince raised to conquer her world.
Far from home and surrounded by those who celebrate her downfall, the princess becomes a royal hostage in all but name. But victory is never as simple as Sovin imagined. Loyalties crack. Brothers spill brothers' blood. Fathers fall to their sons. Ambition tightens its grip, and the weak are devoured.
And while Ibiri and Sovin tear each other apart in their struggle for power, something ancient-something that once reduced empires to ash-awakens across the sea.
The shadows of the old world are rising again, and they are moving toward the present.
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