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The Nyenir Chronicles: Empress
Paperback
Series: The Nyenir Chronicles, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A crown built from ash. An empire built from trust.
Four days after burying a king and a claimant in the same terrible week, Aeryna Hightower inherits a throne - and a war fought on five fronts by five frightened realms who have never once trusted each other, let alone her.
She could conquer them. Every crown before hers would have tried.
Instead, she asks.
One letter at a time, one honest reckoning at a time, Aeryna sets out to do what no Frostborn ruler has ever managed: bind the Dales, Greenland, the fierce Longhead camps of the grazing country, and the proud, silent Islands of Goth into a single realm - not by the sword, but by a queen's word, kept at terrible cost, again and again.
But something older than any crown is stirring beneath the mountains. A presence at a forgotten gorge that will not attack - that seems, impossibly, to be waiting to be asked something instead. And as five wars quietly reveal themselves to be one, Aeryna must decide how far an honest question can be trusted to travel - even into the deep, even before the thing the old songs call the Dark Lord himself.
Alliances are won. Old enemies fall. And a woman who never wanted a throne finds herself becoming something no ruler, and no history, has ever properly had a word for.
Scolyte Yorin has kept this record faithfully - every triumph, every grief, every truce that cost more than it seemed to buy. He asks only that you judge it, as he has tried to write it, honestly.
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