Queen Of Nothing

<p><strong>Power is the most addictive drug.</strong></p><p>For five hundred years the world has been ruled from the shadows by a secret matriarchal order: The Matron Circle. They are the invisible hand behind every government every bank and every war. Their rule is absolute governed by a monstrous ancient creed:</p><p><em>A daughter must inherit power. A mother must die for it.</em></p><p>Seventeen-year-old Nyira Kaneza has spent her life in hiding moving from city to city taught to be invisible by a mother paralyzed by fear. Nyira believes she is nobody.</p><p>She is wrong.</p><p>A routine DNA test exposes Nyira as the last surviving heir of the Fifth Line-a forbidden bloodline of Queens who were erased a generation ago for being too powerful to control. Now the Matrons have found her.</p><p>Dragged into the subterranean City of Daughters beneath Istanbul Nyira is forced to compete in the Gauntlet: seven brutal trials designed to break her mind and body. She must survive poison banquets blindfolded combat in arenas of bone and the psychological torture of the Mirror Labyrinth.</p><p>Surrounded by rivals who want her dead and a servant boy named Kai who may be her only ally-or her deadliest betrayer-Nyira faces an impossible choice:</p><p><strong>Claim the throne and become the villain they want her to be.</strong><br><strong>Or die before sunrise.</strong></p><p>But Nyira has a third option. She doesn't want to rule the game. She wants to flip the board.</p><p>From the underground bunkers of Berlin to the snowy peaks of the Swiss Alps <em>Queen of Nothing</em> is a dark cinematic thriller about the cost of power the lies of history and a girl who decides that the only way to save the world is to burn the throne.</p><p><strong>No daughter will ever kill a mother again.</strong></p>