Realm of Shadows

Prince Vallen was twelve when his father executed his mother—her blood seeping through the cracks of a wooden scaffold while he watched, frozen. That night, he inherited her secrets: the Crimson Crow rebellion and the Seam, a spy network woven through both courts.

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For two years, he's led both from the shadows. Fighting his father's tyranny. Searching for the prophecy twins who might be the only hope of stopping the darkness spreading across the realm. Carrying a weight no fourteen-year-old should bear—and letting no one see the cracks.

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When whispers reach him of a seven-year-old girl who survived a village slaughter—a girl TWO kings want dead—he abandons everything to find her. Raven has violet eyes that glow with impossible power. An amethyst dragon hatches for her—the first in two thousand years. And the prophecy Vallen has been hunting? It might be staring up at him with ancient eyes in a child's face.

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For three years, he trains her. Protects her. Builds something that feels like family. But protecting Raven means lying to everyone else he loves—his brotherhood with Thorne and Alaric, his relationship with Nymeria, the rebellion that depends on him.

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As enemies close in and Raven's power grows, now seventeen, Vallen faces an impossible choice—one that will cost him everything he's built, everyone he loves, and the last pieces of who he used to be.

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Some bonds are forged in shadow. Some choices echo across kingdoms.

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And some sacrifices can only be made alone.