A Crown for the Exile

By: A. J. Nguyen

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Yulena has spent years surviving at the edge of the Wildwood, hidden from a kingdom that would rather cage monsters than admit they can bleed. Beautiful, deadly, and long accustomed to being feared, she has learned that hunger is simpler than hope—and far safer than trust.

But when a wounded sprite crashes into her refuge with hunters on her heels, Yulena is dragged out of isolation and into a world that has grown far more dangerous than the cave she called home. Across the borderlands, the crown’s new decrees are turning outcasts into fugitives, neighbors into informants, and survival into a public spectacle.

Now, with a growing band of allies at her side, Yulena must cross a kingdom dressed in silk and sanctimony, outwit a court built on cruelty, and decide whether a woman like her can be more than the monster everyone expects.

A Crown for the Exile is a dark romantasy full of sharp banter, dangerous magic, monstrous tenderness, found family, and courtly corruption.