For Glory and The Crown

PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS: CONSPIRACY

"So tell me, because I'm curious, what hope did you have? What delusion made you think anyone was going to believe you?" He asks, towering above me. "You of all people." He spits. "Worthless, pathetic, little palace slave."

"I am more than I appear." I whisper. "Just because I am in chains does not make me a criminal; just because I have nothing does not make me poor; just because I have these scars does not make me a slave."

*warning* triggers of abuse and slight graphic death content.

Traitors lurk in the most visible places, conspiracy plots are formed in the darkness, trust is a broken word.

There is no safe place within the palace now. Husbands turn against wives, mothers against daughters, fathers against sons, brothers against sisters -- and for Delilah, everyone she ever trusted, turned on her. Forming an unexpected bond with one of the palace slaves, her only hope of staying alive and stomping out the conspiracy is by trusting the slave and her family. Giving more than she bargained for, she found herself falling for the slaves mysterious brother but at the same time learning things she never dreamed of.

Amidst the growing chaos and confusion, Delilah has been found, put on trial, and sentenced to death.

Desperation to its height, she turns to the one who betrayed her, and asks for the one thing that puts the entire Kingdom at stake.

"What do you want!?" I yell.

"I want the truth!" He demands.

"The truth won't set you free!"

The crown is wanted by many, the power is wanted by most, but the glory is wanted by all.