The Crimson Queen

Amanda Aggie The Crimson Queen First published by Book Dragon Publishing 2023 Copyright © 2023 by Amanda Aggie THE CRIMSON QUEEN. Copyright © 2023 by Amanda Aggie. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For more information, please visit www.AmandaAggie.com. Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. All brand names and product names used in this book and on its cover are trade names, service marks, logos, and registered trademarks of their respective owners. The publishers and the book are not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. None of the companies referenced within the text have endorsed this book. This book is a work of fiction. All names, places, characters, and events are products of the author’s imagination or are fictitious. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Aggie, Amanda, author. Title: The Crimson Queen / Amanda Aggie Description: First Edition. | Book Dragon Publishing, 2023. Printed by Kindle Direct Publishing 2023 Cover Design Copyright © November 2022 by Amanda Aggie Proofread by Alventecus Editing Developmental & Line Edited by Book Dragon Publishing ASIN: B0BND1XQ98 (ebook) First edition This book was professionally typeset on Reedsy Find out more at reedsy.com To the strong women the world who swoon for morally gray heroes. Contents Acknowledgement Read First… Spotify Playlist 1. Kai 2. Alice 3. Kai 4. Kai 5. Alice 6. Kai 7. Kai 8. Asmo 9. Alice 10. Alice 11. Alice 12. Alice 13. Alice 14. Alice 15. Alice 16. Alice 17. Alice 18. Finn 19. Alice 20. Alice 21. Alice 22. Alice 23. Kai 24. Alice 25. Alice 26. Alice 27. Alice 28. Alice 29. Kai 30. Alice 31. Alice 32. Alice 33. Kai 34. Alice 35. Alice 36. Alice 37. Alice 38. Alice 39. Alice 40. Alice 41. Alice 42. Alice 43. Epilogue: Alice Bonus Content Also by Amanda Aggie About the Author Acknowledgement Read First… This book contains triggers! My heroine is snarky and uses adult language—no, she won’t apologize for it. My hero is sexy, manly, and might possibly put a damper on your marital sex life. My stories involve magic and paranormal aspects that take you to another world. If you’re someone who thinks magic and sorcery is the Devil’s work, my stories aren’t for you. I am a firm believer in the idea that everyone deserves love, regardless of race, gender, dress size, or wealth status. Lastly, I’m a sucker for a spicy romance book, but I prefer those with plot lines. I have an open-door policy the series gets spicier as it goes, so enter at your own risk. As for major content or trigger warnings… Gore (dismemberment), violence, death, murder, blood, bones, snakes, monsters, spiders, skeletons, and other disturbing images that might not be suitable for all audiences (graphic). There are moments you might cry, but all of my stories end with an HEA (Happily Ever After). There are prisoners, and criminals, and war. There are moments where the characters will mourn the dead and animal attacks. There are explicit sex scenes that are intended for audiences of 18+ years of age, and since the ZON gets fickle if I don’t mention this, there are sexual relations with religious figures, such as demons, angels, the Devil, etc. There are various kinks, such as primal kinks, praise kinks, age gap (sort of, he doesn’t grow old…), choking, biting, animalistic behavior. This series takes what we know about Christianity and turns it upside down. It is not meant to be taken as a biblical text, or to be used for religious purposes. With that said, if you’re family—talking to you, Mom—and you have to sit around the dinner table with me at Thanksgiving, you’ve been warned. If you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen because what you’re about to read might make you look at me awkwardly from Spotify Playlist Listen to a themed playlist while you read by clicking HERE! 1 Kai My hand flirts with the shimmering wall of my prison, not touching it but fucking wanting to. Only I know what will happen the moment it makes contact with my flesh. It’ll burn like a motherfucker. How could she do this? Yes, I put her in a similar position when I marked her, but I truly didn’t know about the repercussions of the spell. There was only one thought running through my mind and that was to keep her safe. I would’ve removed the mark the moment I got Luri to safety. There was no way of knowing that it’d drive her mad… Mad enough to cut the damn thing out. This though? This doesn’t compare. Not only has she locked me in this damn prison world, but the lords, their wives, and most of the castle staff as well. There’s hardly enough food to last us for more than a couple of days, and unless the flowers in this remaining sliver of the royal garden are edible, we’ll be shit out of luck when the rations are gone. I can’t die from lack of nutrition, but it doesn’t mean I won’t want to should we run out. And besides me, no one within the castle’s stone walls is immortal. They’ll starve and this beautiful courtyard will become a haunting reminder of just how far Alice went to save Finn. I can’t let that happen… She might believe she’s doing the right thing, but that much innocent blood on her hands will destroy her. Did she account for that? I doubt it. Alice is many things, but she’s not one to blindly hurt people. She just has a habit of trying to do the right thing without thinking it through fully. Not that I’m better… My fingers skim too close and the barrier zaps my pinky. I jerk it away with a hiss. Conveniently, it’s the