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The Five Crowns: The Balance of the Kingdoms
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five crowns. A gift capable of touching the memory of the world. And every truth comes at a price.
More than a century ago, the Moon King achieved the impossible: he brought Varkhan, Lunvar, Auren, Sylvaris, and Dravok together under a single balance of power.
But that age is over.
Now, the five kingdoms watch one another with growing distrust. Varkhan is being consumed by a drought that threatens to destroy it. Lunvar watches the roads and ports upon which power depends. Sylvaris guards its forests, its routes, and its resources. Auren struggles to preserve stability through law. And Dravok waits, revealing nothing about where its sword may eventually fall.
While the crowns argue over borders, water, trade, and ancient promises, a family without a crown begins to acquire the one thing kings fear losing most:
Influence.
But something far older than their rivalries still exists.
The Gift of the Moon.
It does not reveal a future already written, nor does it show what is destined to happen. It allows its bearer to touch the memory of the world-to uncover forgotten roots, possible paths, and the consequences that may arise from a single choice.
And it demands something in return.
One memory for every truth.
Amid secrets some crowns would rather keep buried, Nymera moves through history as the living memory of something that seems to have begun long before the kingdoms themselves. Her presence awakens questions no one is prepared to answer.
Because while kings believe they are fighting over water, territory, and power, a far more dangerous war is taking shape-one that has not yet been declared.
Old alliances begin to fracture. New debts bind those who once swore they would depend on no one. And every decision draws the five crowns closer to a point from which there may be no return.
How much would you be willing to forget to learn the truth?
The Five Crowns: The Balance of the Kingdoms is a political fantasy of intrigue, secrets, alliances, and power, where no crown rules alone-and some of the decisions capable of changing the world are made far from any throne.
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