The Palace of Lost Kisses

By Dawn Frank

Five hundred feet beneath the Royal Citadel, Prince Cael Harrington guards a secret empire of glass.For ten years, he has collected the unspoken desires of the dead-moments when mortals stood on the edge of a kiss, confession, or farewell and swallowed the words instead. Those abandoned emotions can be captured in vitrified quartz, preserved as luminous fragments of lives that never dared to speak.But Cael is searching for only one.On the night of the Solstice Fire, his mother, Queen Margaret, vanished into a temporal prison beneath the palace. Her final kiss-the one she tried to give her young son before the flames separated them-became the emotional key to the ward that now holds her in stasis.Cael has spent years searching the kingdom for that lost kiss.Then Genevieve Beaumont enters his hidden world.Her father was condemned for the catastrophe that destroyed Queen Margaret's court, but Genevieve has uncovered evidence that the official story was a lie. Her father helped build the secret Chamber of Stillwater-and Queen Margaret herself commissioned the prison beneath the Citadel.As political rebellion threatens the kingdom, Cael learns that the key to freeing his mother may not be lost at all. A strange violet phial contains an impossible emotional imprint: a kiss that has not happened yet.It belongs to Genevieve.Worse, the temporal lock has recorded their future love before they have even chosen it.If they use the kiss now, they may free the queen-but erase the very relationship that creates the kiss in the first place.Cael must choose between the mother he has spent a decade trying to save and the future he has only just begun to imagine.Because some kisses are lost to death.And some are lost because they have not happened yet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMJJC2GH
• ISBN13: 9798182869331
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Dawn Frank
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"