The King-Killing Queen

In this first book of a new trilogy author Anna SmithSpark calls “a dark love letter to high fantasy,” a woman discovers her unknownpast carries with it a terrible future.

When Alafair Goode lay wounded during his quest to destroyMordreadth the Great Darkness, a witch magicked and saved the future HighKing’s life to fulfill his destiny. Thereafter, all born to his line alsocannot die, to be only undone by natural death.

Decades later, Sylvie Raventress is the devoted apprentice tothe Master Historian stepbrother of the High King. It is a life of scholarlypursuit and privilege where one day she will take her instructor’s place andwrite her own histories. But beside Alafair’s deathbed, Sylvie and his scions learna surprising truth—she is no orphan but is his named heir. Worse, when he dies,the witch’s curse is no more, leaving all of them suddenly mortal andvulnerable.

With her siblings loathing Sylvie’s selection and vying for herthrone, she must rely on a Fae guide, a disgraced former First Knight, and acantankerous light-weaver to restore the fracturing kingdom and become HighQueen. And yet the thing none of them know is destiny has its own part to playtoo.

For the witch saved Alafair Goode for her own reasons…