The Cursed Queen

The court exiled her for her power. Now the crown wants her back.

Sera Voss has spent eight years surviving in silence.

Once a princess of Valdris, she was sent away when the court decided the thorn curse beneath her skin made her too dangerous to remain near the throne. She learned to hide her scars, lower her profile, and build a life far from the black stone halls that ruined her.

Then the king dies.

The Crown Council summons her home.

And the moment Sera returns to Thornhall, the curse wakes.

The Ritual of Presentation was supposed to prove whether she still carried royal blood. Instead, it exposes something far more dangerous: the crown does not merely recognise Sera.

It answers her.

Caiden Reth, the commander assigned to escort and watch her, should treat her as a threat. His orders are clear: observe, report, contain. But Sera is not the unstable weapon the Council claims she is, and the more Caiden learns about the curse, the crown, and the men controlling Valdris, the more dangerous his loyalty becomes.

Because Sera's exile was never mercy.

The thorn curse was never just a sickness.

And the crown of Valdris has been bleeding for a reason.

As court factions close around her and old magic begins carving new marks into her skin, Sera must decide whether to survive quietly again, or claim the power that once made her disposable.

The court wants obedience.

The commander wants the truth.

The crown wants blood.

And Sera Voss may be the curse Valdris created, then failed to bury.

The Cursed Queen is Book One in The Crown That Bleeds, a dark royal romantasy duet filled with cursed crown magic, political betrayal, forced proximity, forbidden tension, a powerful exiled heroine, and a morally grey commander who may have to choose between duty and the woman the throne was built to fear.

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