Power is the only language. And everyone is fluent in betrayal.

Calista Monroe was always meant to be a pawn in the game. A loyal, silent, and disposable one. But obedience was a lesson she unlearned early. As in Thalor, submission is merely survival.
Now, the Black King’s favor is a dangerous curse disguised as honor, and the Assassin at her side is even deadlier: a man with a thousand secrets.
War looms, treachery whispers, and the throne she reaches for may not be hers to claim.

Because in Thalor and Karnoss, queens are always crowned in glory—

And buried first.