The Crown of Falling Stars

The night the stars bled, Seraphine Ashford was kneeling in Duskfell's frost-orchard, counting moonpetals she could still save before the deep freeze took them, and before the ancient prophecy she had spent her life ignoring finally caught her. When a celestial crown tumbles from the wounded sky and lands among her frozen blooms, Seraphine is thrust into a collision of forces she never wanted to join. Her sister Maren, the seer Bram, the exiled noble Caelen Voss, and the silver-tongued Thessaly Vane each carry pieces of a fractured truth. The ghost Veyra whispers from the other side of a veil that is thinning by the hour. King Aldric Vael's throne is crumbling beneath the machinations of his own court, where Ysolde Vael and the shadow-priest Morvaine play a longer game, while the dread Druveth and the masked Archon close in from the dark. With Lysara Venn's forbidden lore, Corvinus's old allegiances, and the strange child Ossa and the orphan Pella caught in the crossfire, Seraphine must decide whether to wear the Crown of Falling Stars and accept the fire it demands, or bury it in the orchard and watch the world burn unburned by her hand.