“Are you serious?” a shocked man says from the room. “You would kill your own family for power?”

Nick can’t believe what he’s hearing. There’s no way his mother is talking about them.

“This isn’t my family,” Queen Sandra barks. “My family was banished to the outer lands to suffer and die while Queen Nora and King Draco ran their perfect Kingdom. No, I will see an end to their line and rule over the lands that are rightfully ...