A crown built from blood does not wash clean.
Victory at the mountain bought Nova's people nothing but a new war. Prince Fane of the Frostmark wants the throne, the coalition, and the strange, dark blood running through the veins of the one bloodline that might be the last hope this earth has of surviving what comes next -- and he is willing to burn every alliance to the ground to take it.
As the death wave draws closer and the math of survival grows crueler by the day, Lyra must choose between the mercy that made her who she is and the ruthlessness this new world seems to demand of every leader who wants to keep their people alive. The Darkblood in her veins might be the cure this earth needs. It might also be the reason someone finally kills her for it.
Not every throne is a gift. Some are simply the last seat left standing when everyone else has fallen.
Book Three of The Fallen Arc -- a post-apocalyptic political and survival sagaA royal-bloodline power struggle for readers of dystopian fiction with high political stakesThe volume that sends the coalition underground -- into the vault that will define everything afterThe crown is Darkblood. The cost is everything.