The False Queen (The Royal Celestials Book 3) by JB Trepagnier

Author:JB Trepagnier [Trepagnier, JB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

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Gemma could always count on the Harpy twins. It was late when she sent for them, but they came anyway. And they had intel on the mysterious Cerise. Cerise was a common name in Dioscuri among the peasants and farmers. It meant cherry, which was a common crop in Dioscuri.

The nobles enjoyed the harvest, but the peasants and farmers celebrated the cherry crops with festivals and parties. Gemma didn’t care a damned thing about them, but she knew there were a ton of little dirty Cerise’s out there picking crops and wishing to be crowned queen of some cherry festival. As if some plaster crown and a bunch of farmers kissing your arse for a week were anywhere near as crucial as being picked by Mercury to rule an entire kingdom.

Still, the Harpy twins came through like they always did. They told her of a noblewoman named Cerise, which was just an uncommon name among the nobles. This noblewoman named Cerise was the talk of scandal for a little while, and even decades later, the Harpy twins heard the story.

She showed up out of nowhere in Exalos when she was eighteen. No one had heard of her before, and she didn’t speak of her family. She took a room at the cathedral and was attempting to get a job as a governess. She was reportedly stunning. None of the wives wanted her around their husbands, even if their children reportedly liked her. Several of the noblemen noticed, even if she had a name common among peasants and no one knew who her family was.

It was a massive scandal in Exalos when she married the young governor of the region. She became a lady by marriage, and there were whispers she was a bastard. People demanded to know, but she refused to discuss her family. Gossip surrounded her for years. Some said she never spoke of her family because they were peasants and she was a bastard, and others said she was a bastard, but she was so beautiful, she had to be the illegitimate child of the Dioscuri queen and was had in secret.

That was the only reason Gemma knew of her now. She tasked the Harpy twins with gathering dirt on the nobles to extort them and find out if any of the previous queens had lines that might threaten her.

This Cerise sounded like a double threat, and she had probably been hiding her fracking twin this entire time. But she could work with that. She knew where Cerise was now, and if she was some bastard who tried to reach above her station, then the people of Exalos probably hated her.

Gemma had her inner circle, then an outer circle she trusted slightly less. Her inner circle found her twin just like she knew they would. Now, it was time to rally the troops to Exalos. She already had a plan to keep them from seeing Tamsin. They wouldn’t know she intercepted the raven, and they would wait for a response.

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