Six Wild Crowns

In the fantastic, magical alternate Tudor England that is Elben, King Henry VIII is required, as his predecessors were, to have six wives strategically placed at the borders of his island kingdom to maintain the magical barrier that protects the realm. However, the barrier is failing, Henry’s wives are dying, and something must be done. His newest queen, Boleyn, hopes to cement her place at Henry’s side by finding a way to strengthen the barrier. Instead, she discovers a truth that no one was ever meant to learn, which soon requires that she and her enemy sister queens overthrow their husband and take back the power that should have been theirs all along. YA author Race’s (“Midnight’s Twins” series) adult debut combines the romantasy of Sarah J. Maas, the cutthroat political corruption of Game of Thrones, and the feminist/sapphic history and mythology revisionism of Madeline Miller’s Circe, set in a fantastically researched Tudor Court with all its machinations, à la Alison Weir.