Plus-size fairy Blair has freakish strength, but Prince Lucian loves her only at night and mocks her by day. Pregnant, she refuses to stay a secret—while Queen Isadora forces Lucian into a political marriage and schemes to take the child carrying the royal flame. Blair enters the strength trials, builds an alliance of women, breaks into the palace for proof, and exposes the gauntlet draining her baby's power. She shatters it, wins the royal trial, refuses the crown, and builds her own academy.