The Kingdom Beneath
Paperback
Series: Blood Crown, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 652
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The crown has been refused.
The throne has been exposed.
Now the kingdom beneath the kingdom is waking.
Auri Venn never wanted to be queen. She refused the Blood Crown. She rejected the Throne of Liars. But refusal has consequences, and Edgeham is breaking under the weight of every truth its rulers buried.
Roads collapse. The dead rise with names on their tongues. Hidden children are hunted for the blood they carry. Houses scramble to reclaim power before the people can learn what really built the kingdom. And beneath it all, something older than any crown is stirring: a buried system of roads, records, debts, and emergency laws designed to keep power alive even when kings fall.
Auri does not stand alone.
Ronan must face the lie of the false heir and decide whether blood can ever be refused. Mira must fight a healing order that calls control mercy. Kael must hold gates that were built to close over the desperate. Vesper must turn records into weapons sharp enough to survive the people trying to rewrite them. And Isolde must finally answer for the secrets she kept in the name of love.
As Gallows Ford, the Black Seat, and the Common Dark collide, Auri is forced toward the final question at the heart of the trilogy:
If no crown should rule, what keeps a kingdom from tearing itself apart?
The answer will not come from blood.
It will not come from a throne.
And it will not come from one girl becoming the center of everything.
This time, the kingdom will either learn to answer for itself...
Or close around another crown forever.
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