Wren endured three thankless years concealing her radiant plumage inside her fiancé Hunter's fortress, allowing his snobbish courtiers to mock her as a wingless commoner to preserve his pride. The deception turns unbearable when Hunter's favored concubine brands Wren's skin with burning embers, and Hunter commands Wren to bow her head in submission. That callous humiliation marks the end of her patience.
Shattering the magical glamour cloaking her true form, Wren unfurls the iridescent wings of the supreme avian royal dynasty, stunning the assembly into silence. Within hours, her imperial legions revoke Hunter's feudal grants and seize his lands, leaving him ruined before dawn. As she ascends to her sovereign throne, she turns her favor toward the loyal guard captain who defended her in obscurity.
