Tale of the Heart Queen

**Author:** Nisha J. Tuli

**Estimated Reading Time:** 18 minutes

**What This Story Explores:** The price of power, the weight of impossible choices, and the lengths love will go to survive gods, curses, and the ruins of a broken world.

**Who This Book Is For:** Readers who crave epic fantasy romance with high emotional stakes, fierce heroines, morally complex villains, and endings that feel earned.

The Artefacts of Ouranos series has always been about cages. Some are literal: prison cells, enchanted towers, the gilded halls of kings who would rather own than love. Others are invisible: the weight of a stolen crown, the legacy of a grandmother's sins, the terror of a power that might destroy everyone you love. In *Tale of the Heart Queen*, the final installment of Nisha J. Tuli's breakout fantasy romance series, every cage finally breaks open, and what spills out is both devastating and beautiful. Lor has spent the entire series fighting to understand who she is. A girl stolen from her queendom as a child, raised in the dark, stripped of memory and magic. A prisoner who became a contender in a brutal competition for the Sun King's hand. A woman who discovered she was the lost Heart Queen, heir to a throne destroyed by her own grandmother's ambition. Along the way, she found something she never expected: Nadir, the Aurora Prince, a man who was supposed to be her enemy and became her mate instead. But love in this world is never simple. The Artefacts, ancient objects of immense power tied to each of the seven queendoms, have been corrupted, hidden, or destroyed. The gods who created this world are not benevolent. Zerra, the goddess who once loved and lost, has spent millennia collecting power and punishing those who defy her. And beneath everything, in the Underworld, her former lover Herric waits, scheming, manipulating, desperate to escape his prison and reclaim his place among the divine. *Tale of the Heart Queen* opens in the aftermath of catastrophe. Lor's magic, the lightning she has always feared, has finally done the unforgivable. On a battlefield outside Aphelion, surrounded by enemies, she lost control. The blast had no edges, no discrimination. And when the light faded, Nadir lay dead beneath her. The man she loved, the mate she had only just begun to understand, gone in an instant because of the very power she had spent years craving. What follows is a story about what we do when the worst has already happened. Lor is given an impossible bargain: five days to steal an artefact from a foreign king, or Nadir's soul remains suspended forever. It is a quest that will take her through crystal palaces and…