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The First Lie
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Series: The Queens Erased, Book 2
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Publisher: Haven Ridge Press
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The first names have returned.
The Hall of Crowns has begun to remember.
But memory is only the first door.
After uncovering the truth of Queen Seressa Veyne's erasure, Aurelia Thorn Veyne stands as claimant of Elarion - not yet queen, not yet safe, and not yet free from the crown that chose her.
Then Black Star Tower wakes.
Aurelia soon discovers that Seressa was not the first queen Elarion erased. Long before the Crown of Black Glass, before the Mirror Cells, before the royal line claimed divine right, there was Queen Isolde of the Black Star.
Chosen by the throne.
Murdered by the man history named founder.
Buried beneath the first lie.
As Aurelia, Caelan, Mira, Rowan, and Elianora follow the truth into Elarion's oldest wound, they uncover a hidden bloodline, a court of erased queens, and a debt every crown after Isolde has tried to outrun.
But Lord Varyn Sable is not finished.
If he cannot control the crown, he will twist faith, fear, and blood into something far more dangerous than a king.
A saint.
Now Aurelia must decide whether a crown built on lies can ever be worn without becoming another cage.
Because Elarion's history did not begin with the Forgotten Queen.
It began with the first lie.
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