by J. D. Marcella (Author)
Imprisoned. Tortured. Forgotten.
Kalithea of Elandra should have died where light never reached her-a crownless heir with power too dangerous to contain. But when sacrifice shatters her chains, she escapes the prison carved from pain and shadow, crossing the border with nothing--no name, no crown, only the fire that refuses to die in her blood.
In a foreign court, she carves out an unlikely sanctuary among royalty and rogues. Hunted by the empire that tried to destroy her, she gathers a force of liberation--one strong enough to challenge the usurper who stole her kingdom.
Before she can reclaim her throne, Kal must face a truth greater than vengeance: she was never only a weapon.
She wasn't born to be saved-she was born to change the world that broke her, to burn what was built from her pain, and to rise in its ashes. This is not a tale of mercy or miracles. It is the reckoning that begins when a woman refuses to be shaped by anyone but herself.