Crownbreaker

For twenty years, Kaelan was the King's Shield, an iron-willed monument to the stability of the Sunstone Throne. He wore the gleaming armor of duty, believing the Kingdom of Veridia was a bastion of law, secured by necessary sacrifice. His loyalty was absolute. But loyalty is a fragile shield against a monstrous truth. When Kaelan discovers the kingdom he served was built on a vast, decades-old lie-a foundation cemented by the mass murder of its own loyal subjects-his entire world shatters.
The gentle King Theron, tormented by his father's sins, decides to reveal the devastating compact, risking chaos for a clear conscience. Kaelan, still clinging to the doctrine of stability, makes the first impossible choice: he murders his King to bury the truth and secure the regime. Now, he is trapped. Burdened by his violent, necessary act, Kaelan must choose his final allegiance: remain the silent guardian of a rotting lie, or become the Crownbreaker, the devastating architect of a revolution fueled by his own profound guilt.
He seeks out the brutal, unforgiving rebels of the North, offering them the most dangerous weapon in the kingdom: the truth he once killed to hide. Crownbreaker is a dark, character-driven epic about the moral decay of power and the unbearable price of justice. This isn't a story of heroes and villains, but of a broken man who traded his soul for a kingdom, only to find the only path to redemption is to destroy everything he once loved.