The King's Decree

England, 1837.

Maola Friie has known nothing but the quiet rhythms of her family's garden. But when census takers arrive at her village with a foreign king's decree, her name is added to a cold, official ledger. She is twenty-two. And she is now property of the Crown.

Shipped across the sea with five other women — a fiery Scot, a stoic survivor, two devoted sisters, and a scholar with sharp eyes — Maola is thrust into the glittering, brutal court of King Friedrich. There, women are not servants. They are "acquisitions." Bodies for consumption. Souls to be broken.

But Maola carries two things the King did not count on: a small kitchen knife hidden in her satchel, and a refusal to become soil for his empire.

As the women navigate masked balls, whispered conspiracies, and the cold gaze of a monarch who sees people as commodities, they begin to do what no shipment of "acquisitions" has ever done before.

They organize.

They remember each other's names.

And they plan to burn the kingdom down from the inside.

A sweeping historical novel of resistance, sisterhood, and the quiet fury of women who refuse to be forgotten.