Heiress to a Court of Nothing
The wicked queen was once a goodly girl, but goodly girls don’t last in poison courts.
In a court of gilded mirrors, gilded smiles, and gilded lies, she is an insignificant nothing. White-haired, gangly, and gawky, she stuffs her soft dreams behind an iron façade.
But when her father arranges a foul betrothal for her in another city, she craves at least one tiny taste of freedom before her fate boxes her into nothingness.
She takes her soft daring into the honeyed radiance of the carnival, where she seeks to unravel some secret.
She sneaks behind one of the rides and finds…
An open door.
Inside a small room, on time-eroded planks, kneels a beautiful boy scarcely older than she, and as the wind brushes sand across her slippers, the boy glances up.
Here, she takes her first step into freedom.
But the unreadable, cryptic heir to the kingdom is always one step behind her.
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Heiress of Healing
“Her magic reached… like glowing hands… into his ruined heart.”
Gifted with boundless compassion, Iminique loves even when she shouldn’t. She heals those who possibly don’t deserve it. But her generous heart demands she dispel all the ills that she can.
And thus, in secret, she defies her father’s edict that she never use her magic.
At her first royal ball, however, when she’s only thirteen summers old, a single mistake sends repercussions across her entire life: she pits her pitiful, untrained, untried, and loving magic against a nameless, faceless mage who is trying to steal the life of a royal infant.
Without mercy, the wizard unravels her magic and seizes her soul. As she blunders inside his magical prison, though, she experiences an agony that is not hers.
It’s his.
In her final moments, her healing reaches into him, into the soul of this wrecked man, and she patches up what damage she can.
Abruptly, the mage lets her go, leaving both her and the royal babe alive.
Nothing is ever the same again.
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Heiress of Magic
In a city of mages, three women dream…
Every day, Lysium dances with magic, dispersing potentially dangerous spells into her rapt audience.
Every evening, her beautiful husband comes to her bed, his touches marred by breathless and unfathomable melancholy.
Every night, after he leaves, she chronicles her most beautiful moments–moments stolen with her best friend, a fire mage–before a shadow in the night steals these memories away.
She endures, until the day the guildmaster gives her to the ruler of their city.
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Every day, Essence walks the world as one shunned because of her bone-white hair, her blood-red eyes, and her incredible power.
Every evening, she renews the magical boundaries that protect the city from an outside foe.
Every night, haunted by loneliness, she exchanges missives with a mage from another demesne, a man who does impossible magic.
She endures, until the day he arrives in the city of mages to meet her–and claim her.
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Every day, Melynda walks the city as a mediocre sorceress trying to protect everyone she knows.
Every evening, she checks on her secret children, whose souls are captive of the guildmaster.
Every night, she spends with her lover, her children’s father, an assassin who knows nothing of his past.
She endures, until an entire contingent of visiting mages vanishes.
But she must contend first with the guildmaster who possesses the souls of her children.
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Unbeknownst to all three, an enemy to the south plots their downfall.
Content Warnings: Some of the male characters are morally questionable. One female character is tricked into sleeping with someone else without knowing who that person really is. An unborn baby is stolen from one character’s womb.
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Heiress of Secrets
In our kingdom, plots rest as easily as the guilty.
That is, not at all.
I am the first queen in centuries to fail at my task: instead of seven future kings, I birth only a single girl.
Without the seven monarchs, our world is fated to end.
My king, however, plays truant, shirking his duty to sire them by wallowing in other women’s beds instead of mine.
My only solace is dispatching assassins after my daughter.
That stupid thing! While nobles despair and the commoners plot, she learns swordplay and seeks allies among the nobodies, trying to win over the rebel leader.
He, though, has sworn a blood vow to end our bloodline—and, thereby, her.
How I would like nothing more than to fold my decrepit body on the altar of defeat and have done with these troublesome plots and my tiresome life, but my king—the disgusting cur—has cast a spell to keep me from ending myself.
Locked with him in wedded torment, I cannot endure. I flee into the night, a bedraggled creature wandering the dumpheap of our city.
It is there that an ancient, sharp-toothed enemy finds me… and offers me a bargain.
Venture into a bitter queen’s glittering court, where dreams glisten while the wicked listen…
Content warnings: mentions of miscarriage, death of unborn children, one brief mention of someone’s past abuse, threat of SA (not carried through)
COMFORT WARNING: There is a very cute dog. I am not a dog person, yet here we are. My cat is Very Put Out at this situation.
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Heiress of Shadow (coming who knooooows :-D)
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Sonya Lano 