OBSIDIAN QUEEN 💍

In a world fractured between the Gifted; those born with the roaring blood of dragons, and the humans who toil in the dust of the Lowlands, power is the only currency that matters. At the peak of this hierarchy sits King Malrik Drakar Croix, the Beast King. A monster wrapped in silk and shadow, Malrik is a ruler of absolute, surgical control who inherited his throne by sliding a dagger through his own father's ribs. He is a man of a thousand powers and zero mercy, a predator who treats the women of his court like disposable trophies in a game of submission.

Then comes Aurelia Bloom.

A "Lowland comet" with skin the color of earth and a mind full of forbidden books, Aurelia is a vision of grace wrapped in grit. When the Crimson Guards descend for the "Taking," she is dragged from her home and rebranded as Number 12; just another body meant to satisfy the King's legendary, insatiable appetite. She is expected to kneel, to tremble, and to be consumed by the fire of a King who has never been denied.

But Aurelia does the one thing no woman in the Sanctum of Obedience has ever dared to do: she looks the Beast King in the eye and refuses to break.

While the court whispers about the "Untouched" girl and the Queen plots her lethal erasure, The Beast King finds himself caught in a psychological war with his own prize. He wants her ruin; she wants her freedom. In a palace where every touch is a brand and every whisper is a threat, the line between hatred and hunger begins to blur.

One is a King -with a dark, suffocating fixation, who takes what he wants; the other is a girl who has nothing left to lose but her soul. In the end, only one will be left standing...and the world will burn in the process.