
Kinsley Gomes, a palace maid who can mimic the Queen to a frightening degree, takes her mistress’s place while the real Queen slips away to breathe. When Kinsley learns her parents were framed, arrested, and then gruesomely silenced, the life she “borrowed” becomes a burning trap. The King, Dashiell Leroy, believes she is the Queen—and his protection is suffocating and intoxicating. A ruthless court noble, Minerva Heinrich, and a shadowy power broker, Ephraim Barbieri, have stitched a conspiracy that reaches into every corridor of Mariner Heights. Can Kinsley survive being both a pawn and a queen, strip the mask off a murderess, and turn the whole court into the place where her enemies beg for mercy? Or will pretending cost her everything she swore to avenge?

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