Lies Under the Crown

Eleanor, legitimate princess of Valencria, bears a strange gift to hear relics’ voices. Days before her royal wedding, the giant engagement reliquary tells her her knight fiancé hides inside with his childhood sweetheart. Cold yet resolute, she orders the kiln sealed and lights the fire herself to punish their betrayal. After the furnace burns seven days, the fused relic stands as eternal proof. She abandons doomed love, seizing full control of her own fate.