The Queen of Lore

Arabella Garin claimed the crown, but ruling it may destroy her. With her mother kidnapped by the traitorous Princess Thea and enemies circling the throne, the former scavenger must master volatile magic that could consume her—or watch the last sanctuary in a poisoned world fall.

When Lady Maxia unleashes an army powered by dark sorcery, Arabella refuses to cower behind castle walls. Defying her own Council, she'll forge a new kind of warfare—one that breaks every tradition the Queendom holds sacred.

But victory demands a price that could exile her beyond the radiated borderlands, into a wasteland where the ruins of the old world hide secrets that will shatter everything she believes about magic, survival, and the true cost of power.

Some crowns are won. Others are earned in blood and ash.