The Queen of Nothing

Power is a fickle thing; easy to seize in a moment of desperation, but notoriously difficult to keep. Jude Duarte learned this the hard way when she surrendered her leverage over the wicked King Cardan, only to be met with a betrayal that stripped her of her crown and cast her back into the gray, mundane world of mortals.

Now, as the exiled and technically "powerless" Queen of Elfhame, Jude is biding her time in the human realm, fueled by a cold, simmering rage and a determination to reclaim the life Cardan stole from her. Her chance for a homecoming arrives unexpectedly when her twin sister, Taryn, shows up with a life-threatening problem that only Jude can solve.

Returning to the treacherous High Court means Jude must go undercover, risking execution to navigate a palace that has grown even more lethal in her absence. She must face the stinging memory of Cardan’s treachery, and the complicated, magnetic pull he still exerts over her heart. But Elfhame is fracturing; old alliances have soured, and the drums of war are beating across the shifted landscape of the Fae.

As Jude slips behind enemy lines, she finds herself entangled in a web of bloody politics and ancient grudges. When a dormant, catastrophic curse is finally unleashed upon the land, the stakes escalate from a personal vendetta to a fight for the realm's survival. Forced to choose between her ruthless ambition and the humanity she’s tried so hard to bury, Jude must decide what kind of Queen she truly wants to be, before Elfhame burns to the ground.