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From a princess on the brink of a crown she never wanted, to a queen who has borne its weight for nearly a century, to a distant kingdom where ancient laws threaten to destroy everything they were meant to protect, these three stories reveal a different thread in the fragile tapestry of the Awakened world.<\/p>\n<p>Because beneath the surface, love, faith, and destiny are always at war with the cost of power.<\/p>\n<p>~*~<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAPTIVATED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brenn has spent her life dreading the crown\u2014and the responsibility it demands. But when her father\u2019s failing health makes her ascension inevitable, she seeks guidance from the one ruler she trusts: her cousin beneath the sea. Instead, she finds a kingdom on the brink of rebellion\u2026and the one man she has never been able to forget. Atlas chose the mer over her years ago, and now he may be the only one who can help her survive long enough to claim a throne she never wanted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CELEBRATED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For nearly a century, Queen Electra has led her people with strength and faith\u2014but even the strongest rulers cannot escape loneliness. Each year at Holytide, she allows herself one night to remember joy\u2026one night with the man she should never have loved. But when strangers arrive from distant waters with an offer that could reshape their world, the fragile balance she has fought to maintain begins to shift\u2014and the past she thought she understood may no longer hold true.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONSECRATED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Soltierra, Crown Princess Luciana is slowly giving her life to sustain her kingdom\u2014while her sister refuses to accept that such a sacrifice is necessary. Far beyond the desert, King Koa of the Calm Water Mer faces a different crisis as his people\u2019s magic begins to fail. When land and sea come together in search of answers, both must confront a truth they have long avoided: the laws meant to preserve their world may be the very thing destroying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The print compilation of the three Awakened world mer novellas,\u00a0<em>Captivated, Celebrated, <\/em> and <em>Consecrated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[222,273,105,2590],"product_tag":[2646,2567],"class_list":["post-9488","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-new-releases","product_cat-romance","product_cat-speculative","product_cat-whitecrown","product_tag-antony-barone-kolenc","product_tag-chrism-press","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}