The Ashborn Queen
READING AGE 18+
Exiled as a broken bride, she was never sealed at all.Elira was raised as the kingdom's "cursed" princess — born with magic so unstable the court sealed it away at birth, and married off to a rival prince as a political pawn nobody expected to matter. When he publicly denounces her for a stronger, "purer" bride and has the court mages strip what little magic she's allowed to show, he doesn't know the seal was never real. She let them believe she was powerless.Now, exiled to the kingdom's most dangerous border province — the place they send people to disappear — she's exactly where her true magic can finally wake up.
Unfold
The letter arrived folded inside a shipment of grain, smuggled rather than sent, and Elira understood the significance of that detail before she'd even broken the seal.
It came from Sera, a former lady-in-waiting who had served alongside Elira at court for nearly four years before circumstances, and the dowager's particular displeas……
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