The Fairies Beneath the Palace
Princess Lyra Kingsley has spent twenty years hearing something beneath the walls of Oakhaven Castle.To everyone else, the ancient granite is silent. To Lyra, it whispers, scrapes, and groans as if something buried beneath the palace is desperately trying to escape. Her family calls it illness. Her mother gives her herbs and narcotics to silence the voices. But Lyra knows the truth lies deeper.When she ventures into the forbidden foundations, she discovers ancient runes carved directly into the living rock-runes designed not to protect the palace, but to bind and drain whatever lies beneath it.The secret reaches back to the legendary Fairy War, the glorious victory that built House Kingsley's power. For generations, the royal family has celebrated the destruction of the fair folk as a sacred triumph.But the stones remember a different story.Beneath the palace, imprisoned fairies have survived in darkness, their magic chained to the foundations and their stolen power sustaining the kingdom above. Their suffering has been transformed into prosperity, while history has rewritten their extermination as a heroic conquest.Now the prison is failing.As the voices grow louder and the ancient magic begins to awaken, Lyra must confront the terrible truth about her family-and the price her kingdom has paid for its throne.If she frees the creatures beneath the palace, Oakhaven may collapse.If she remains silent, the fairies will continue to suffer.And for the first time, the princess must decide whether loyalty to her crown matters more than the voices buried beneath her feet.
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