Samantha Lynn Bearden: The Queen of Paper Rivers, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In the extraordinary kingdom of Aethelgard, rivers are made of paper, history flows like ink, and memories can be written-or erased. Queen Evelyn Kingsley rules a world built upon silence, but she has paid a terrible price for that peace: years ago, she performed the forbidden Great Erasure, deleting the memory of a devastating tragedy from herself and her kingdom. Now the past is returning. A mysterious Ink of Malice is spreading through the Paper Rivers, consuming the land and transforming forgotten grief into a living force. As Aethelgard begins to collapse, Evelyn is confronted by Elias Hawthorne, the Chronicler of Shadows, who reveals the truth she has spent years refusing to face. The darkness is not an outside enemy-it is the accumulated sorrow created by everything she forced the kingdom to forget. Evelyn's journey leads her back to the night of the Great Fire and the sister she sacrificed to preserve her crown. When she finally remembers Elara, the grief she buried for years comes rushing back. Rather than destroy the darkness, Evelyn chooses to embrace the pain and restore the memories that were erased. As the White Ink flows through the kingdom, the corrupted rivers are cleansed-not by returning Aethelgard to blank perfection, but by filling it with the messy, painful, beautiful truth of its history. The Great Erasure ends, and the Great Remembering begins. The Queen of Paper Rivers is a lyrical fantasy about memory, grief, guilt, and redemption. It asks a powerful question: Can a kingdom truly be healed if its people are forbidden to remember what they have lost?