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The Heir in Winter
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Series: Caine
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The king is dead. The heir is seven. And every powerful man in the realm knows how easily a child can stop breathing.
Behind the locked doors of Blackmere Palace, a crown passes to a boy too young to understand the blood gathering around him. The law says he should rule. The court says he should be protected. The knives say otherwise.
When the old king dies on Candlemas morning, the realm does not fall into mourning. It falls into calculation. Nobles speak of duty. Priests speak of order. Claimants speak of peace. All of them are lying.
The child heir is surrounded by lords who would rather bury him than kneel, bishops who can turn ambition into holy necessity, and rival bloodlines waiting for the smallest weakness to become a lawful excuse. His grandmother, the queen, has the royal seal, the line of succession, and the truth on her side.
None of it is enough.
So she does the one thing no sane ruler would admit to doing.
She sends for Caine.
He is not a saviour. He is not a knight. He is not the kind of man kingdoms thank in public. He is the name whispered when thrones need bodies removed, when prayers fail, and when the machinery of power runs out of clean hands.
But this time, Caine is not being asked to kill a king.
He is being asked to keep one alive.
Set in a frozen kingdom of locked corridors, sacred lies, royal blood and quiet murder, The Heir in Winter is a dark medieval fantasy of succession, survival and the brutal cost of keeping a crown alive. It follows a court where every oath hides a bargain, every ceremony can become a weapon, and mercy may be the most dangerous act of all.
For readers who enjoy grim political fantasy, violent court intrigue, ancient bloodlines, morally dangerous protectors and kingdoms where power is never clean.
The crown must endure.
The child must live.
And Caine must decide whether a kingdom built on blood is worth saving.
The uploaded manuscript opens with King Aldren II's death at Blackmere Palace, the seven-year-old heir Elian, Queen Ysabet's fight to preserve the succession, and the later arrival of Caine as the unannounced force brought into the crisis.
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