Claimed By The Forbidden Crown

“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.”