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Crown of Starlight

Crown of Starlight

Unmasked, hunted, devastated, revealed... Kaveh, Nin, Taline, and Rone must decide what is worth fighting for—and who can be trusted to change the world. Book Three in the trilogy.

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Enter a world ruled by shadow, scepter, and blood.

Unbreakable bonds forged in an age of myth. Four very different people will rise, and empires will fall.

In a magical Persian Empire, an extraordinary thief will steal a ruthless warrior's heart, upend an empire, and form bonds deeper than blood.

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Crown of Starlight

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Unmasked, hunted, devastated, revealed… Kaveh, Nin, Taline, and Rone must decide what is worth fighting for—and who can be trusted to change the world.

Brother against brother. Slayer against survivor. Tormentor against victim. Trust against hatred.

Hope, betrayal, family, and love…. The end has come, the scepter demands payment, and only together can they win.

Series Note

Crown of Starlight is the third book in a three book series featuring the same cast.

  1. House of Scepters
  2. Cage of Shadows
  3. Crown of Starlight

Pentalayerverse

What is the Pentalayerverse?
This is the five layer Earth that all Anne Zoelle books inhabit (so far!). As Will explains in The Awakening of Ren Crown, “In the Split, four magical layers identical in geography to the first were created directly on top of this one, using most of the world’s available magic. Leaving this—the First Layer—a normal, non-magical safe haven for people without magic abilities. Course, that was three thousand years ago, so most places look different between the layers now—due to weathering and construction by different species and kingdoms.”

Who inhabits the layers?
1 = non-magic layer for humans and animals
2 = stable magic layer for mages
3 = stable/unstable magic layer (depending on time period) for mages and beings
4 = stable magic layer for creatures, beings, beasts
5 = unstable magic layer (traverse at your own risk!)

Where do the books take place?
* The Ren Crown series is a current day story that mostly takes place in the Second Layer (with jaunts to the First and Third).
* Tender of the Garden takes place in the Fourth Layer, also in the current day time period.
* The Scepter series takes place in the Second and First Layers of Ancient Persia (600BCE).

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Cover artist

The beautiful illustrations on House of Scepters, Cage of Shadows, and Crown of Starlight were drawn by Eleonor Piteira.

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A world of Shadows and Scepters

In a magical Persian Empire, an extraordinary thief will steal a ruthless warrior's heart, upend an empire, and form bonds deeper than blood.

And alliances are formed in blood.

When the power to rule all is in your hand, who will you protect?

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