The Queen: The crown no one wanted to give her
Aylis was born a princess of Iberia, but she was never raised to obey in silence. Daughter of King Alaric and descended from a powerful Asian lineage through her mother, she learned from a young age to read maps, interpret alliances, wield a sword, and understand the true language of the court: power.
At eighteen, she is sent to Persia to marry King Kaveh. There, among concubines, palace intrigue, and silent rivalries, Aylis discovers that a crown can also be a prison. For nearly twenty years, she will be a queen, a wife, and the mother of two heirs, but never completely free.
When she decides to leave Persia and return to Iberia, she finds a kingdom very different from the one she left behind. Her father dies, and the crown passes to Leandro, her half brother, because the laws do not allow a woman to inherit the throne. Yet within a few years, the new king drives Alaric's legacy toward ruin.
Aylis must choose between standing aside or fighting for what she was always prepared to protect. With political intelligence, military strength, and the support of old alliances, she will challenge a tradition that excluded her from birth.
The Queen is a novel of power, exile, betrayal, and destiny. The story of a woman who lost one crown, rejected another, and had to conquer the only one that could truly belong to her.
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