Crowns and Capital

The king is dead. The council has crowned his brother. And the rightful queen has been named a traitor for the crime of surviving.When King Aldric Vale is murdered on the night the death bell rings, his daughter Eleanor is locked inside the western residence while her uncle seizes the throne. The official story is that the king's heart failed. The truth is that someone opened a tomb that should have remained sealed, and the ancient Crown of Capitals has begun to stir.Armed with nothing but a fragment of the broken Crown, a loyal captain, and the knowledge that her father's death was arranged, Eleanor flees the capital. What she discovers is far larger than a stolen succession. Beneath the kingdoms lies an older machine of power — one that once bound dragons, recorded loyalty, and decided who was allowed to rule.As armies gather and an indigo dragon named Varkhen rises from the mountains, Eleanor must decide whether to reclaim the throne through the same force that destroyed her father, or build something the Crown was never designed to allow: a kingdom that can survive disagreement.Crowns and Capital is an epic fantasy of succession, dragons, and the true cost of power — a story about what happens when the right to rule is no longer written in blood or stone, but must be earned again.