In
their centuries-spanning marriage, Lana and Lucien had endured their
fair share of blessings and curses. But the famous royal duo have never
encountered anything quite like this before.“Lana? Hello! … The line’s a touch scratchy… Are you there?”
“I’m here
alright,” Lana spat into the receiver. “I’m standing right next to your
body.” She stared down at her husband’s form – youthful, beautiful and
unmoving – as she spoke to him on the phone. “Your seemingly dead body… which brings forth the question: Where the bloody hell are you?”
An uneasy little laugh came from the other end as Lucien proceeded to explain his unique supernatural situation.
By the time he finished, Lana’s face was twitching in irritation. “You’re telling me you’re trapped… No, scratch that, someone has trapped you intentionally and indefinitely in the circles of Heaven.”
“The higher circles, but yes,” said Lucien from the other end of his celestial call.
“I
swear, this could only ever happen to you.” Lana shut her eyes briefly
in irritation. “Ever since we met, you’ve attracted such madness and
brought it into our lives on the regular! For once, I wish you’d behave
like a normal person. Can’t you ever be normal?!”
“I
am a Divinely chosen being with limitless power wedged into a mortal
meat-vessel of a body, whose soul was assigned to enter the terrestrial
realm for the sole purpose of creating and leading the greatest empire
ever known to man. I can turn absolutely nothing and everything into the
most precious of gold. I can create electric storms across the realm
with one mere thought. I can send bolts of lightning two Kingdoms over
and get them to report back to me. If I so please, I can hear a
butterfly flapping its wings on the other side of the planet. If I so
wish, I can fly straight to the Sun without ever once having to stop on
the Moon. … With all that in mind, the answer to your question is a
profound, No… No, I can never be normal.”
“All that power and yet you can’t find your way back into your own body?”
A
stilted silence stretched between them, until Lucien finally broke out
with, “Well, I can’t be expected to do everything by myself now, can I?”
The
Queen glared down at her Husband-King’s body. With her realm at risk
and her mate trapped in another dimension of time and space, Lana must
weave through a secret society of mystical Kings, witches and spirits to
get him back. She didn’t know what to expect, but she knew this much:
she’d kill whoever did this to her man, and once he was awake, she’d
kill him too.
Lana hated the inconvenience of it all. What she hated even more was that she loved him enough to go through with it.
Release Date: October 25th 2024.