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The Poisoned Throne: An Adult Dark Romantasy with a Cursed Queen, Enemy Prince, Forbidden Magical Bond, Ancient Crown Magic, Political Rebellion, Stol
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Series: The Queen of Ruined Bells, Book 3
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 780
Weight: 2.26
Height: 1.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The throne has lost its queen.
It has not lost its hunger.
Fiorenna Thornmere and Maeron Eldenhart have uncovered the truth behind the salt and silver magic that ruled their kingdoms for generations.
Crown Voice was never meant to command.
Answering Heart was never meant to suffer.
And the ancient system binding their bloodlines was never supposed to belong to a throne.
But breaking the old rules has created something even more dangerous.
A kingdom terrified of living without them.
As rulers, councils and frightened citizens search for a new source of permanent authority, the poisoned throne begins adapting. It learns new laws. New forms of obedience. New ways to disguise control as protection, stability and even choice.
And Lord Rasmus Veyr is still waiting inside the machinery.
Maeron has been dragged into the First Court, where the memories of dead queens reveal centuries of sacrifice buried beneath royal tradition.
Fiorenna is offered the crown again and again, not because everyone wants to control her, but because people genuinely believe only she can save them.
That may be the most dangerous temptation of all.
Because every emergency offers the same promise.
Take the power now.
Give it back later.
Save them first.
Ask permission afterward.
But Fiorenna has learned what happens when temporary authority survives one day too long.
And Maeron has learned that sacrificing himself for the woman he loves can become another way of denying her a choice.
To end the system that created them, they will have to surrender the very powers that once kept them alive.
Their magical bond.
Their inherited authority.
Their crowns.
And the certainty that love must make two people belong to each other in order to survive.
With ancient Seat structures awakening across both kingdoms, Rasmus turning law itself into a weapon and ordinary people beginning to demand the return of the power Fiorenna is trying to destroy, the final battle will not simply decide who rules.
It will decide whether anyone should possess that kind of power permanently again.
Because the last throne cannot be defeated by placing a better person upon it.
It can only be defeated by proving that no one needs to own it.
The Poisoned Throne is Book Three and the conclusion of The Queen of Ruined Bells, an adult dark romantasy trilogy featuring a cursed queen, enemy prince, forbidden magical bond, ancient royal magic, political rebellion, morally grey choices, high heat romance and a hard won HEA built on mutual choice rather than fate.
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