Celestial Whispers

The kingdom of Averna is shrouded in fear, for its crown carries it carries death more than power. Every bride who dares marry the king meets the same fate, and the whispers of the curse echo through palace halls and starless nights. Janeal never asked to wear a crown. Or a wedding gown. Dragged from her home by her ambitious aunt, she is forced into a royal marriage meant to end her life before it begins. The king—cold, distant, and twenty years her senior—is as feared as the curse that clings to his bloodline. The court waits in silence for her to fall like the others. But when the wedding night comes, Janeal survives. The king begins to change. And the whispers—those strange celestial murmurs no one else hears—begin to follow her. A mystery stirs in the stars above Averna, and Janeal stands at the center of it all. She was meant to be a sacrifice. Now, she may be something far more dangerous.