She broke the title meant to consume her. Now the broken are calling her queen.
Davina Veyr shattered the Iron Thorn, opened the forgotten roads and exposed the royal laws that erased generations of women.
But freedom has not ended the curse.
Across Lorian, stolen memories are returning in the wrong bodies, buried roads are opening without warning, and people lost for decades are walking home to families who no longer remember them.
At the centre of the chaos waits a law the Crown tried to destroy.
It could release Davina from the Living Veil.
It could also take Kiernan Mournvale's future and transform him into a living road, trapped beyond sunlight, land and name until every severed path is restored.
Kiernan has spent years believing sacrifice is the purest form of love. Davina knows better. She will not accept a freedom purchased with the disappearance of the man she has finally chosen.
As their search carries them through Deep Keeping, Mournvale House and the ruins beneath Blackroot Palace, Davina discovers that the original magic was never meant to be carried by one Bride, one Witness or one ruler.
The Crown made sacrifice solitary because solitary people were easier to control.
Now the forgotten are returning. Old enemies are becoming necessary allies. The Hollow Sovereign is learning how to weaponise love, grief and every future its victims still desire.
And the people of Lorian have given Davina a name she never asked to carry.
Queen of Broken Things.
To save the realm, Davina must decide whether the title is another cage or the first form of power nobody can own.
Queen of Broken Things is a dark adult romantasy featuring a widowed heroine, a fallen royal guard, forbidden love, broken trust, shared memory magic, old enemies turned allies and a morally grey protector who must learn that loving her does not give him the right to disappear for her.
