In the Body of a Tyrant

Time-swap palace intrigue with a ticking hourglass.

Maya Bennett slices her palm on a bronze hourglass and opens her eyes as Cassian Vale, the reviled monarch of Veyra, kneeling before the executioner's blade. History books call him a tyrant who ruined the kingdom, yet the court around him hums with treachery and Caldrin's armies gather at the border. Fresh blood on the artifact yanks her consciousness between the modern dig site and the seventh-century throne room, letting her steer Cassian through the conspiracy with scholar Lyra, healer Seraphine, and Commander Rowan, who watches every move with narrowed eyes. Each return to the present reveals a Veyra still burning from a seven-hundred-year war, where Maya now sits as Prime Minister — proof that saving the king rewrites the future in ways she never intended.

• fantasy
• historical
• rebirth
• hidden-identity