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Connie Clarke

3 Published Stories

Connie Clarke 's Books and Stories

Claimed By The  Forbidden Crown

Claimed By The Forbidden Crown

Fantasy
5.0
THE CROWN MARKED ME FOR DEATH. THE PRINCE CLAIMED ME AS HIS OWN. AND NEITHER OF US REMEMBERS WHY HE HAS KILLED ME BEFORE. The night I touched the Forbidden Crown, it branded my throat with a royal mark. By dawn, Prince Lucien Draven, the kingdom's feared heir who was supposed to be dead, had returned from exile. In front of the entire royal court, he looked me in the eyes and declared five words that destroyed my life. "She belongs to the Crown." Suddenly, I was no longer the scholarship girl everyone could humiliate. I was the girl every prince wanted to possess, every noble wanted silenced, and every royal guard had orders to keep alive. Including Lucien. Especially Lucien. The cold-hearted prince insists I must stay close to him if I want to survive. He refuses to explain why my mark burns whenever he touches me, why he looks at me like a ghost he has spent centuries mourning, or why an ancient voice calls me Queen Elara in my dreams. Then I discover the truth about the girls who carried my mark before me. Not one survived. And the closer I get to Lucien, the more my memories begin to disappear. He says he will protect me. But what if he is the reason I keep dying? Five hundred years ago, a queen sacrificed herself to imprison a catastrophe inside a crown. History remembers her as a monster. The kingdom fears her return. And the crown? It has been waiting for me. Now I must uncover the truth about the prince who claims me, the queen whose face I wear, and the forbidden love that has ended in blood in every life before this one. Because the crown does not mark the women it loves. IT MARKS THE ONES IT MUST DESTROY.
I Returned as the Nanny to the Daughter They Stole From Me

I Returned as the Nanny to the Daughter They Stole From Me

Romance
5.0
They took my daughter seven hours after she was born. They forged my signature. They buried the paperwork. They handed my baby to one of the most powerful men in the country and told the world she was gone forever. But I never believed them. For five years, I searched. Then a photograph landed on my desk-a little girl with dark hair and the same stubborn tilt of the head I saw in my own mirror every morning. Her name was Lily Blackwood. She was six years old. And she was mine. Now I'm inside Blackwood Manor-not as her mother, but as her nanny. Close enough to hold her hand. Close enough to hear her laugh. Close enough to watch her look at me as though she's been waiting for me her whole life. Because she has. Lily knows a lullaby I created for my unborn child-a song no one else should have heard. She says things that make no sense. She remembers feelings she shouldn't remember. And every day, she pulls me closer to a truth someone has spent years trying to bury. Damian Blackwood is not the man I expected. Cold. Controlled. Always watching. He lets me into his home when he should have sent me away. He keeps fresh flowers outside a locked room no one is allowed to mention, and every secret inside this house seems to lead back to the night my daughter disappeared. Someone stole my child. Someone built a web of lies to hide the truth. And as I uncover the secrets of Blackwood Manor, I realize there are people who will do anything to make sure I never reclaim the daughter they stole from me.