THE MONTROSE BASTARDS

They tried to kill the rightful heir. They should have made sure she was dead.

Rose was meant to burn with her parents the night Montrose Castle fell. Instead she walked out through a servants' gate, a princess the whole kingdom believed dead, and that was the one mistake her enemies could not undo.

Geoffrey Woodstock has poisoned one king and butchered another. He commands the army, rules through a frightened puppet, and has buried every threat he could find. He missed five people.

Rose carries her father's ring and the truth about the night Montrose fell. But a claim is only paper until someone bleeds for it, and the only people who can put her on the throne are the ones Woodstock failed to kill: his own forgotten blood, and the bastards he never counted.

Jean will lie and damn herself to crown her sister. Roderick stands between Rose and every blade in the kingdom while loving a woman his blood forbids him. Ricklyn guards the cipher that could hang her father.

Joseph turns his gifts against the man who named him. Each holds a piece of Woodstock's ruin. Each must betray everything they were born to in order to use it.

The law will speak. The reckoning will come. And not one of them will walk away unbroken.

A sweeping tale of betrayal, forbidden love, and the brutal price of setting a kingdom right.