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Velara, a sorceress exiled from old realms, seeks power through the bloodline before the heir turns eighteen, forcing the kingdom’s rulers to hide their infant daughter among common folk. Years later, Damon, wounded and alone, discovers Alira’s true identity and stops Velara just in time. Damon and Alira’s union remakes history while challenging whether love can reign in a world ruled by duty and fear.","A Queen’s Heart Karen Rhodes  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2025 by Karen Rhodes  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher,  \nexcept in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.  \nISBN: 9798293255818 Cover design by the author  \nPrinted in the United States of America First Edition  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo those who doubt their worth. May you always remember your power.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nBefore there was a queen, there was a girl born of light.  \nAlira Sinclair, daughter of King Adrian and Queen Leah of The Dawn, carried a rare and sacred bloodline—one that marked her for death.  \nLong ago, the world had known magic—wild and strange, whispered through ancient courts and secret texts. In Alira’s time, it was little more than a memory. No one lived by it. No one trusted it. Some claimed it had never existed at all, calling it superstition and fable. Still, in the far reaches of the land, whispers lingered—of rituals, of fae blood, of shadows that moved when they shouldn’t.  \nDark magic, it was said, could still be summoned.  \nAnd Velara believed it.  \nVelara, a sorceress cast out by the old realms, sought dominion over all humanity. To gain such power, she needed the blood of a royal heir born of light—taken before the child’s eighteenth year.  \nAlira was that child.  \nBut the “light” Velara sought was not magic. It was something rarer: the legacy of a kingdom built on love, beauty, and mercy—values so long dismissed that they had become a threat to those who ruled by fear. Alirawas born of that legacy. And for it, she was hunted.  \nTo protect her, the king and queen sent their infant daughter into hiding. She was raised under a false name by three women in the forested outskirts of the realm—hidden in plain sight among the common folk. The girl never knew she was a princess. She lived a quiet life—simple, kind, unaware of the blood in her veins or the darkness stalking her birthright.  \nThe world believed she was lost. Many thought the tale of Velara was only a myth.  \nBut it was all true.  \nAlira had been promised at birth to Prince Damon of Valtoria—who would one day become its king. And it was Damon—years later, wounded and alone—who stumbled upon her in the woods. She tended to his injuries with gentle hands and soft eyes.  \nWhen he discovered who she truly was—and what Velara planned to do—he returned to face the sorceress himself.  \nHe killed her days before the ritual could be completed.  \nOn the eve of Alira’s eighteenth birthday, she was safe.  \nTwo weeks later, she became a queen.  \nThey were not just uniting kingdoms. Damon and Alira were rewriting history. He was raised to rule in fire. She was born to quiet the flames .  \nIn a world ruled by duty and shadows, they were the first royal couple in history to marry for love.  \nBut in a kingdom forged by war and ruled by fear…could love ever truly reign?  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPART I  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCrown and Dawn  \nThe throne room of Ironspire Keep had never known such silence.  \nNot in wartime. Not in mourning. Not even in the presence of death.  \nToday, it was the silence of history catching its breath.  \nThe hall stretched high and cavernous, carved from black stone and bone-dark marble. Columns bore ancient runes from a time when Valtoria had belonged to warlords. Stained-glass windows caught the light of the setting sun and fractured it into golden flame . Dust hung in the air like sacred smoke, glinting softly in the torchlight, and the air was laced with the scent of iron, wax, and old oaths. 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