The Lost Bloods

Lyra has spent her life trapped in silence.

Stolen as a child by a ruthless king, her magic and her voice were torn from her in a ritual she never understood. Forced into servitude under Princess Claria, she survives only by obeying, and enduring. But when she is sent to impersonate the princess at a noble heirs' ball, she overhears a plot meant for Claria and becomes the target instead.

Her escape leads her straight into the hands of The Lost Bloods, a feared pirate crew who mistake her for the princess. Terrified and voiceless aboard their ship, the Aurora's Veil, Lyra hides in the shadows, convinced she will be used or discarded like always.

Instead, she finds something she has never known: kindness.
A cat-shifter who keeps her company.
A captain who stops her from degrading herself.
A medic who tends to pains she cannot explain.
A strategist who brings her books she cannot yet read.
A crew of lost souls who see pieces of themselves in her.

When they finally discover she is not the princess but a girl stripped of her childhood and identity, everything changes. The injustice woven through Arafell runs deeper than any of them imagined, and Lyra becomes the fragile spark of a rebellion none of them expected to lead.

The king stole her magic, her family, her freedom.
Now, with the most dangerous crew on the seas at her back, Lyra might finally take it all back and bring a kingdom to its knees.

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