Cursed Bloodline: Book One, Bloodline Series
But it didn’t stop Maevin from adding, “The last maiden lost the child yesterday, it didn’t survive past the first moon.”
Outside the palace walls, Arkenholt was dying. The trees withered in their roots, rivers ran low, and children were born with weak lungs and weaker hearts. His people needed an heir—a direct descendant of the royal bloodline, one born of his seed and strength.
But the gods had grown silent, turning each attempt into a blood bath of miscarriages and sometimes the death of the maiden.
Maevin took a step forward, upholding a reverent calm, as if speaking to a wounded god. “The people grow restless, they need hope, they need proof that the king's blood is not cursed.”
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