Keep The CroWn
It's all Len has ever wanted.
She's bled for it, killed for it, and there's one hurdle left - getting rid of her awful betrothed. When war and murder are taken off the table, she's out of reliable tools. Then, an idea: She can escape her betrothed by marrying his enemy, instead.
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Meet Len
Queen Lenina Adante has earned her crown with blood. Her people are vicious warmongers backed by an equally violent deity. They're disciplined, impeccably trained, and hate living under a ruling queen.
Len doesn't mind.
Her strengths? Lifelong battle training, careful humility, and an indominable spirit that keeps her moving forward, even when all feels lost.
Weaknesses? All that training can make her overconfident, and her pride has offended more than one enraged man - and potentially, a god.
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Meet Kaseus
King Kaseus Collabel is a villain Sericans haven't managed to kill. Ruler of the hedonistic country Hotesa, he's no stranger to sin. Kaseus spends his time basking in his excess and drowining out the rest of Serica's nations - or does he?
His strengths: horrific magic that rivals some gods and magnetic charisma even his enemies find hard to ignore. If you asked him? He'd say his humilty is second only to his irresistible good looks.
What makes him weak? Hatred. After years being the Monster of the North he's so hateful he barely interacts with a soul outside his borders. That, and a certain prideful queen.
About the author...
S.M. Gray is a small-town Canadian author. By day she works as a psychotherapist, and she moonlights as a voracious key-clacker in her free hour before bed. She holds master’s degrees in Sociology and Psychology which inform her writing.
Gray began writing in 2004 on the now defunct fictionpress.net and its cousin, fanfiction.net. From there she moved to Archive of our Own where she still regularly writes for fandoms like Gundam, Supernatural, Jujutsu Kaizen, and the Hunger Games.
The first iteration of Blood in the Azure was born in 2004, and she's happy to finally do it justice with a complete overhaul twenty years later. Read the full back story!
Gray lives in small-town New Brunswick with her husband, two young children, and sugar-sweet cat.
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