My Scavenger Mom Is the Galaxy Queen

Hidden royalty, memory loss, cosmic stakes

On a wasteland planet, Lyra survives by scavenging scraps until a boy named Leo calls her Mom and an Imperial Marshal whisks her to the capital as a stand-in for the missing Queen Victoria. Neither realizes Lyra is the true monarch who defeated the Insectoids five years ago, while a woman named Selena stole credit for that victory and now plots to silence her. The real queen walks into the palace unaware of her own crown.

• fantasy
• second chance
• alternate history