Everyone believed Seraphine was born to wear the crown—until the ancient Dragon Hall refused to answer her.
During the royal coronation, a lowly servant girl named Elara is forced to kneel beneath the throne, wiping away the stains of a ceremony that was never meant for her. But when her hand touches the black stone floor, the hall awakens. Dragon marks ignite beneath her palm. The pillars answer. And the dragon chooses the girl no one was supposed to see.
Now the kingdom faces an impossible truth: the crowned princess may be a lie, and the servant girl may be the rightful queen erased from history.
As Queen Regent Morwen fights to bury the secret, Seraphine clings to a throne that was never truly hers. But the dragon keeps following Elara. The old laws keep opening for her. And the true crown, sealed away for generations, begins to wake.
She was born beneath their feet.
But the dragon crowned her.
