
The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
Carissa Broadbent · Crowns of Nyaxia #3
Shares enemies to lovers, second chance, court intrigue & morally grey.
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The Traitor Queen is second chance, enemies to lovers & morally grey — steamy (3/5), dual-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.
Exiled and branded a traitor, Lara watches Ithicana fall to her father's forces — and when she learns her husband King Aren has been captured, she returns to enemy territory to rescue him. Reuniting her estranged sisters as unlikely allies, she must earn back Aren's shattered trust while dismantling her father's empire from within.
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