Her Majesty's Venomous Roses

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Her mother died inside the royal palace, and nobody in those silk corridors plans to answer for it. So Nyra answers with herself. She walks into court and offers her service to Queen Marian, a ruler whose beauty is matched only by her reputation for ruthlessness. The gamble works. Nyra becomes the queen's newest favorite, close enough to watch, close enough to strike. Court is exactly what the official premise promises: jealousy everywhere, schemes with sharpened edges, favor that can drop you as fast as it lifts you. Nyra moves through it with one fixed purpose. She takes down the people who killed her mother, one by one, each removal bringing her closer to the truth of that day. Then something neither of them budgeted for starts happening. Marian, guarded and twisted and long past trusting anyone, finds her attention caught by this girl in a way it has never been caught before. The avenger notices it too. Revenge was supposed to be the whole story. The queen's slowly opening heart keeps complicating the ledger. Her Majesty's Venomous Roses is a historical thriller with a sapphic core: poison, palace politics, and a slow burn between an assassin-by-favor and the monarch she meant to use. The tension is not whether Nyra finishes her list. It is what will be left of either woman by the time she does.

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