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A Palace Fractured
The Valtain Preludes #1
A Palace Fractured (2017)
Rosira has spent her life confined within the Church, revered not as a person but as a Valtain, a pale religious figure meant to symbolize something larger than herself. In A Palace Fractured, that confinement becomes the heart of the story’s premise. Rosira has grown to resent the institution that defines her, and the novel begins from that tension between duty and self-determination. Around her, the country is under strain, with civil war and a challenged new king pushing private discontent into a much larger crisis.
The book appears to set up a fantasy shaped by political unrest, religious control, and a heroine determined to make something more of her life than the role she has been forced to inhabit. As the first book in The Valtain Preludes, it reads like an earlier-career fantasy romance with a rebellion-driven core, where questions of identity, power, and personal freedom matter as much as the romantic thread.