Price of Innocence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798986676128)

In a kingdom reshaped by the will of a queen, loyalty is an armor stronger than any steel.

To tighten her power, the queen enlists four criminals-outcasts bound not by oaths, but desperation -to carry out her most ruthless designs. Their first task: steal an infant heir to a goddess's magic, and a princess. Two children fated to become her wards and weapons. Despite the joy the pair find together, they're torn from innocence, realizing they're growing up in a world where loyalty is corrupted, and friendships are chains.

Only one man stands between the queen and her triumph: a knight once sworn to protect the infant's legacy, now bound to her service by shattered vows. When he uncovers a fragment of the truth, he makes a desperate choice-turning to the very criminals who bear the torches breaking the realm.

But redemption comes at a cost. To defy the queen, these unwilling allies must reckon with the blood on their hands, and decide whether they are capable of being heroes... when they may already be the kingdom's destroyers.

Dark, sweeping, and deeply human, Price of Innocence is a story of shattered vows, stolen childhoods, and the fragile line between ruin and redemption.