The Crown in My Heart
READING AGE 4+
My husband put a property-transfer agreement in front of me during the winter benefit and asked me to sign away the coastal shelters I had spent eighteen years protecting. When I refused, King Edmund announced that I had become an obstacle to the Crown. He expected the country to remember a disobedient queen. Instead, the people remembered who had opened the shelters after the flood, and who had tried to sell them. I kept my promise to the kingdom, even when keeping it cost me my marriage, my title, and the home I had built inside the palace. But by the time the ministers stood beside my coffin and the streets filled with mourners, Edmund had learned the price of the choice he made. I had to wonder: when the Crown finally asked him to choose between his power and me, would he choose me at all?
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The new housing rules passed without opposition.
Bellwether withdrew its claim against the trust after the audit became public. The company's development plan changed. The hospital would be built on a different site, with private financing and no transfer of shelter leases. The trust kept the six buildings. The coastal families who had ……
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