The Mourning Year: Bloodlines Book 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798180674708)

THE MOURNING YEAR is a royal gothic thriller where succession isn't ceremony-it's containment.

When a death inside Buckingham Palace is quietly erased, King Charles is forced to repeat an ancient vow beneath the Crown-words written in blood to restrain a power sealed in the palace's foundations. But someone has sabotaged the oath. One word has been changed, and restraint is turning into reverence.

Amelia Prescott, the author the palace uses to control its public narrative, finds the altered fragments hidden in sacred places and learns the truth behind the Crown's survival: a secret court below, a human warden who rewrites history, and a "house" that listens when the wrong words are spoken.

Now a replacement rite is underway-one that would turn the monarchy into an altar.

In BLOODLINES: BOOK 2, you'll find:

• Royal succession with occult consequences
• Hidden archives, missing pages, and forbidden vow language
• Palace intrigue, secret keepers, and a fractured immortal court
• Gothic tension, ceremony-as-weapon, and blood-bound power

Perfect for readers who love dark palace conspiracies, supernatural suspense, and secret-history thrillers.