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Maeve Ferrante-Elyes survived a wheelchair, a cane, and a wedding that nearly killed her. Now she's twenty-one, married to the Irish chieftain of her dreams, and honeymooning in a cliffside castle over the Atlantic.
Then the black box arrives. No card. No mercy. Inside: an obsidian chess queen, a photo of Maeve sleeping — and a note signed only Q.
Q is Siobhan Quinn. Exiled widow. Murderer of her own husband. Forty years she's waited to take back the Irish crown — and she plays chess with lives. Every move announced. Every move doubled. Every move aimed at the heirs.
A white pawn, snapped in half. A silenced uncle scrawling one word in blood: CRYPT. A lullaby humming from inside the castle walls. A sonogram stolen from the doctor's office — Maeve's secret pregnancy, circled: MOVE EIGHT: I SEE YOU.
From a poisoned coronation to a tomb wedding among forty standing queens, Maeve must win a hostile clan, survive a game forty years in the making, and walk into a crypt to face the woman who has been planning her death since before she was born.
Her husband fights beside her. Her sister brings an army. And her unborn daughter is the hidden queen on the board.
She plays WHITE. They play BLOOD.
Tropes: Irish mafia × Italian mafia · secret pregnancy · chess-master villain · coronation · hidden heir · war in a crypt · super spicy · guaranteed HEA 18+. Very dark. Check the content warning inside.
Book 2 of the Blood Empire trilogy. Includes a bonus preview of BLOOD KING (Book 3). Start with BLOOD BISHOP (Book 1).
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