The Glass Crown

By C.J. Merrick

Spring, 1574. The Crown can command a kingdom. It cannot command what refuses to die.

Hana has spent five years protecting her younger sister from a royal system that decides whose bodies may be used in the name of survival. When the palace draws Hana back into its reach because of her rare medical skill, she returns to the court that destroyed her family.

At its center stands Crown Prince Ji-hoon: heir to a contested throne, gravely ill, and tied to the very violence Hana cannot forgive. His survival depends on Aether-Gall, a secret substance whose human cost reaches far beyond the palace walls.

As succession pressure mounts and resistance closes around the Crown, Hana must navigate medicine, secrecy, and a dangerous bond with a man who is neither innocent nor simple. Saving one life may strengthen the machinery that ruined hers. Destroying that machinery may endanger the people already dependent on it.

The Crown can demand obedience. Hana must decide what it can never be allowed to claim.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1997239108
• ISBN13: 9781997239109
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Lakeglass Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"