Angol
BEFORE THE CROWN
Book One of the Fall
Malvera was thirteen when she first opened a book she couldn't put down - and thirteen when she first touched a magic she was never meant to find.
At the Academy of Arcanium, she is everything a teacher could hope for: brilliant, curious, kind. Her two best friends would follow her anywhere. Her mentors see in her the makings of greatness. No one - least of all Malvera herself - believes she could ever become a monster.
But power has a voice, and voices can be patient.
One choice at a time - a door that shouldn't be opened, a secret kept from the people who love her most, a moment of anger she can't take back - the girl who wanted only to be good drifts toward a darkness she swears, every single time, will be the last. Until the day it costs her everything she was.
Before the Crown is the origin story of the woman the world will come to know as the Black Queen - not a villain born, but one made, choice by quiet choice, by a girl who never stopped believing she was still one of the good ones.
