The Queen Rises

Fiana Willowbark has lost everyone important to her. Her mother sold her soul to a demon, her grandmother is dead, and her father is in prison for a crime he did not commit. Worse yet, she lives in a dystopian Elven Kingdom where the King has made it the law for males to steal magic from females. She's barely making ends meet as a second class citizen in a dangerous patriarchy, but she does have a talent for sneaking into places she really shouldn't be. So as a last ditch effort to get her family back, she starts trying to break her father out of prison... only to get caught by the absolute worst male she can imagine: a viciously powerful High Guard warrior, who's also the right hand to the King. It's a high stakes game of cat and mouse that leads to several unexpected consequences... life or death, betrayal and romance, and getting tangled in a web of secrets that makes it difficult to know who to trust. But the secrets aren't all bad... in fact some of them lead Fiana to believe that there's potential to overthrow the King and restore magic back to all of the female elves. Here's what advanced readers are saying about The Queen Rises... "This book is so unique and SO REFRESHING. The plot, characters, and world building are completely new & different from any other fantasy book I've read." "Kristen Cipriano is a brilliant writer and I am so excited to see what she has in store for the second book!" "I can't WAIT for booktok to discover this!!!" "Okay so I'm obsessed when FMCs get manhandled for their own good lmao." "I read the first 3 chapters a few days ago and I'm not even kidding you when I say I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT. My heart yearns for the rest of the book. It's such a unique story and I LOVE your writing style!" "The further in you get the harder out is to put it down!" "Getting uncomfortably close to the end of the book. Ima need you to get cranking on the next one!" "I'm in a book slump now after finishing The Queen Rises last night..."