by ScribeLoom

A Crown Made of Alibis

Iona Vey records every word spoken in Aster's royal court, and she secretly knows when a speaker believes they are lying. The gift is illegal, and it would make her the crown's property. When the king is found dead and her secret lover, Prince Cael, is accused, she hears two sworn accounts of that night that cannot both be true. Neither witness believes they are lying. With a relentless magistrate closing in and an alibi she can't give without losing everything, Iona has to find out what really happened while the river mists rise.

Content notes: Explicit sexual content · Dark themes and violence · Explicit consensual sexual content · Death of a parent and a murder investigation · On-page violence and injury · Political coercion and legal peril

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