The King-Killing Queen (Old World Tales, #1)

by Shawn Speakman

Magali Villeneuve (Illustrator), Donato Giancola (Illustrator), and Jared Blando (Maps)

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In The King-Killing Queen, which author Anna Smith Spark calls “a dark love letter to high fantasy,” a woman discovers her unknown past carries with it a terrible future. 
 
Sylvie Raventress is the devoted apprentice to Master Historian Kell, stepbrother to the High King. She lives a life of scholarly pursuit and privilege hoping to one day take her instructor’s place and write her own histories. But beside King Alafair Goode’s deathbed, Sylvie and his scions learn a surprising truth—she is no orphan but is his named heir.
 
With her siblings loathing Sylvie’s selection and vying for her throne, she must rely on a Fae guide, a disgraced former First Knight, and a cantankerous light-weaver to restore the fracturing kingdom and become High Queen. And yet the thing none of them know is destiny has its own part to play too…

Kickstarter rare edition:

  • Signed
  • Leatherbound
  •  Exclusive clamshell case
  • Full colour plate illustrated by Donato Giancola
  • ISBN13 9781956000399
  • Publish Date 7 November 2023 (first published 28 September 2023)
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Imprint Grim Oak Press