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Moritana's Madness
Paperback
Series: Dark Queen Saga, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 11 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This story follows Dondorale, known as the Raven, a sharp-tongued, hard-working woman whose everyday life in Homer's Haven is constantly colliding with supernatural war. She works, shops, drives, argues, laughs, and navigates family and relationship drama like any other small-town woman, but she is also tied to ancient magic, bloodline curses, and a hidden dark self that once remained trapped in the Maze.
The universe around her is a split reality: one part grounded in real-world problems like retail chaos, gas prices, dating drama, family fractures, and friendship betrayals, and the other part overflowing with dark kingdoms, soul stones, monstrous creatures, and old forces that can rewrite memory and identity. That contrast gives the story its identity, making the ordinary feel haunted and the fantastic feel personal.
At the center of the story is a moral and emotional struggle. Dondorale is not just fighting monsters; she is fighting the possibility that a darker version of herself may break free, possess someone she loves, or reclaim her completely. That threat turns the story into more than a battle of good versus evil-it becomes a story about identity, loyalty, family, and the cost of surviving your own past.
Mortiana Malcrude, the Dark Queen, stands as the story's greatest external threat, while the Maze and the Dark Kingdom function like living engines of corruption beneath the surface of the world. Around Dondorale, a large ensemble of friends, relatives, and allies keeps the story moving, each one carrying their own mess, humor, pain, and secrets, so the book feels as much like a community drama as it does a dark fantasy epic.
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