The Crown We Forgot
Coraline Ashworth crosses the grey Channel in her dead brother's regimentals, carrying nothing but a bundle of letters from a queen she never knew and the desperate hope of learning how he really died. When she rides into the remote kingdom of Aldenwyck, she finds a court rotting from within: the boy-king Adrian is a puppet, the Regent Cristoph Halden holds the true power, and a forgotten crown lies buried somewhere in the wild north where her brother vanished. The only ally she finds is Lucien Devereaux, the king's exiled uncle, whose grief mirrors her own and whose motives she cannot begin to untangle. As Coraline is drawn deeper into palace intrigue, into the cold chapel where Sister Marguerite guards dangerous relics, and into the snowbound forest where a priest still remembers an older kingdom, she realizes the crown is not merely a symbol , it is the only thing standing between Aldenwyck and civil war. Torn between the safety of ignorance and the dangerous truth waiting beyond the next ridge, Coraline must choose whether to claim a throne she never sought, or walk away and let the kingdom fall. The Crown We Forgot is a sweeping historical romance about memory, duty, and the cost of loving a man whose loyalty belongs to a crown.