Her Majesty's Guide to Faking It

Zivanka Kosina has a foolproof plan: invent a prophecy, fake a divine mark with berry juice, and marry the handsome-but-dim Prince Valerius to become queen. The plan is working perfectly until her engagement gala, when a bolt of divine lightning strikes, revealing her fake mark... and searing a real, glowing one onto her skin. Turns out, she's the actual 'Sunstone Queen' destined to overthrow a tyrant, a job she absolutely did not apply for. Suddenly, the entire Imperial Guard, led by her now-homicidal former best friend, is after her. Her only ally is Bazyl Volkov, the stoic, rule-obsessed bodyguard who's been her shadow for years and is now fated to protect her. With her clever younger sister in tow, Zivanka must race across the Skarbek Empire to find the lost Regalia of the Sunstone Queen, all while dodging assassins, magical beasts, and Bazyl's disapproving glares. But the closer they get to the artifacts and each other, the more Zivanka realizes the prophecy is far more twisted than the one she made up. Can a professional faker become a real queen, or will her lies be the end of them all?