Crownbreaker

For twenty years, Kaelan was the King's Shield, an iron-willed monument to the stability of the Sunstone Throne. He wore the gleaming armor of duty, believing the Kingdom of Veridia was a bastion of law, secured by necessary sacrifice. His loyalty was absolute. But loyalty is a fragile shield against a monstrous truth. When Kaelan discovers the kingdom he served was built on a vast, decades-old lie—a foundation cemented by the mass murder of its own loyal subjects—his entire world shatters. The gentle King Theron, tormented by his father's sins, decides to reveal the devastating compact, risking chaos for a clear conscience. Kaelan, still clinging to the doctrine of stability, makes the first impossible choice: he murders his King to bury the truth and secure the regime. Now, he is trapped. Burdened by his violent, necessary act, Kaelan must choose his final allegiance: remain the silent guardian of a rotting lie, or become the Crownbreaker, the devastating architect of a revolution fueled by his own profound guilt. He seeks out the brutal, unforgiving rebels of the North, offering them the most dangerous weapon in the kingdom: the truth he once killed to hide. Crownbreaker is a dark, character-driven epic about the moral decay of power and the unbearable price of justice. This isn't a story of heroes and villains, but of a broken man who traded his soul for a kingdom, only to find the only path to redemption is to destroy everything he once loved.