Crown's Gift

At her engagement ball, Princess Seraphina Ashborne saves her fiancé from assassination. She does it by accident. The rebel she strikes should have died.Instead, her magic shatters against an invisible force—an ancient power believed extinct for decades. By dawn, the rebel will hang in an iron cage above the palace floor. By dawn, Seraphina realizes the truth:the man she helped condemn carries the Crown’s Gift—the royal bloodline magic of a murdered dynasty—and his death will bury the lie that holds the kingdom together. Trapped inside a hostile court, watched by a ruthless king and a prince who now resents her, Seraphina must choose between the alliance she was sent to secure and the truth she was never meant to uncover. She has twelve hours.If she fails, the rightful king dies—and she becomes the woman who helped erase him.