Belaria Rising: Embers of the Divide.

In public, I'm the obedient daughter of House Velmire.

In private, I'm learning to dismantle everything they've built.

It started with an interrogation.

Sirius Lioren-Union reformer, political rival, the right hand of the man I was sent to sabotage-broke every belief I'd ever held.

Not with torture, but with questions I couldn't answer.

Now I see the truth. And I can't unsee it.

So I go back to the manor. But not as the meek daughter they think I am.
I smile through arranged marriage negotiations while my heart belongs to the one man I can never have.
I master forbidden magic that could stop a heart while passing secrets to the resistance.
I play the perfect heiress while the people in the lower quarters become the family I choose.

Every stolen glance with my family's enemy feels like treason. Every secret meeting pulls me deeper into a world I was raised to destroy. Every moment I spend on the wrong side of this war, I become someone my family wouldn't recognize.

But revolution has a cost.

And when the careful balance I've built begins to crumble, when my grandfather's suspicions sharpen, when I'm forced to choose between the people I love and the power I wield...

I'll discover exactly how far I'm willing to go.

Even if it means becoming the monster they always wanted.

Even if it means breaking rules I didn't know could be broken.

A fantasy of forbidden love, political revolution, dangerous magic, and the impossible choices that fracture everything.

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