The Queen Beneath the Crystal Spell

von Mark Ufniarski

180 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

For one hundred years, Queen Genevieve Beaumont has existed beneath the city of Sol-Aureus, sealed inside a flawless crystal coffin while an entire kingdom learned to live without its forgotten sovereign.Julian is only a poor apprentice horologist from the Lower Cog-Districts. He survives by repairing delicate mechanisms for a brutal regime that owns his hands, his labor, and nearly every choice he has left. But Julian possesses a secret of his own: an unnatural Chronomantic Resonance that can slow the world around him and reveal imperfections invisible to ordinary eyes.When the ancient mechanism protecting the Queen begins to fail, Julian is dragged into the Royal Crypt and ordered to repair it before midnight-or die.He succeeds.And everything goes wrong.The crystal spell does not stabilize.It awakens.Genevieve opens her eyes after a century of darkness and immediately knows Julian's name. Her touch triggers impossible memories, buried betrayal, and a connection neither of them can explain. Before Julian can understand what he has awakened, the Church declares the Queen's return an abomination and sends its Inquisitors to erase the evidence.Now Julian and Genevieve must flee through a city built upon perpetual motion, political fear, mechanical power, and secrets deliberately buried beneath generations of history.But the greatest danger may not be the Church.As Genevieve begins recovering memories of the poisoned court that destroyed her dynasty, Julian discovers that his own strange abilities may be tied to the Queen's bloodline. The distinction between apprentice and sovereign, rescuer and prisoner, past and present begins to collapse.And somewhere beneath the royal court, another crystal coffin is waiting.The first coffin held a queen.The second may hold the truth about why she was imprisoned.To reclaim her kingdom, Genevieve must confront the betrayal that stole her century. To survive, Julian must discover why time itself seems to recognize him.Because awakening the Queen was only the beginning.Something else has been waiting for the clock to strike again.

• Themen: Belletristik Fantasyliteratur Fantasy Romance
• ISBN: 9798182775670
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: MARK UFNIARSKI