At fourteen, Nandini’s world shatters in a single, merciless night. The royal family lies slain, the once-magnificent palace reduced to ruins by the hand of a mysterious stranger. By a twist of fate, she alone survives, cast adrift into a world that knows no mercy. There is no time for mourning, no comfort in grief. The young princess must learn to walk through the ashes of her past, carrying the weight of loss and the unhealed wounds that bleed within her heart.

Yesterday had been filled with laughter, bright, boundless, and alive. Today, silence reigns. The kingdom is gone. The royal bloodline was extinguished. And Nandini, princess without a realm, stands amid the crumbling stones of her home, watching her childhood dissolve into dust. Should she weep for what is lost? Or must she swallow her sorrow, bind her heart in steel, and struggle onward to preserve the one thing she still possesses, her life?

Out of the darkness comes the Deathless One—the Black Emperor—whose vengeance will not rest until the last royal breath is silenced. Against such a shadow, what chance does a frail, untried girl possess? Can sheer will stand where power fails? Can a spirit, wounded but unbroken, rise against the tide that seeks to claim her?

The Homeless Princess is the opening chapter of an epic fantasy odyssey — the first book in The Unknowns trilogy, a tale of ruin and rebirth, of courage kindled in despair, and of a girl fated to challenge the darkness itself.

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