Dagger of the Tsar

Cold, beautiful, distant. Valyants are the god-like, magical elite who rule in the new tsar’s imperial court. And Alya, an eighteen-year-old thief content to keep her head down to survive the tsar's rule, has lost hope that it will ever change.

That is until stealing from the wrong pocket lands Alya face-to-face with a Valyant himself—Lieutenant Nikky Volkov. When Alya exposes a dormant power thought to have been long destroyed, rumors stir claiming her to be the rightful heir to the empire’s throne.

To hide her impossible power, Alya is brought to the lavish court to be trained as Valyant nobility. She’s tasked with nullifying the growing rumors of a lost Romanov heir and quelling a rebellion before it can ignite. But as Alya unravels the palace’s secrets, she’s forced to face the possibility of her lost lineage—as the very heir the tsar and Nikky seek to destroy.