A Crown of Broken Light

In the glass republic of Mirrorgarden, thief Soryn reunites with Arch-Consul Vaelith and discovers the dead Queen’s optical heart beating inside her former lover. Hunted by the Light Council, the rival women descend into a national memory vault where every truth costs a happy memory. To free their people, they must expose the forged election, survive the betrayals they chose, and shatter the crown that once made love another instrument of rule.

A prism thief reunites with the queen she betrayed, then their shared light exposes a dead monarch’s heart beating inside the throne’s new ruler.