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    A year into her marriage with Robert Baratheon, young Queen Cersei Lannister discovers that the crown is far heavier and lonelier than she ever imagined. With no heir in her womb and no power in her hands, she navigates a court that mocks her behind silks and smiles, while her husband drowns himself in wine, whores, and memories of a dead girl.

    Stannis Baratheon might be dull, rigid, and insufferably moral but he’s also one of the few young men at court not blindly loyal to Robert. More importantly, he’s starting to matter.

    In a court full of masks and alliances, where even her own family wounds her, Stannis becomes the last person she expected to haunt her thoughts.

    She wanted to break him.

    Now she doesn’t know if she’s breaking, too.

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