The Starless Queen: She Was Born to Die for the Throne. She Chose to Take It.

They dressed her in white because white showed the blood better.

Ira has known her purpose since she was seven years old - the altar stone, the ritual, the ending prepared for her before she had a name for it. She was raised well, educated carefully, kept in good health, and never told the truth about why.

At eighteen, she kneels at the altar stone before the full court. The ancient compact magic surges toward her. It presses and pushes and searches for a way through.

It finds nothing. She doe...