hard magic system

The Queen Without a Kingdom

In Orsanne, power belongs only to those who lawfully own the ground—and every use of magic destroys part of it forever. Eleven days after her coronation, Queen Ilva Adarre is stripped of nine million spans by a perfectly legal deed and exiled to a wasteland where she is powerless. But her father’s grave still belongs to her. With only a few feet of earth and the reluctant protection of Kell Sarrowe, a border lord ordered to let her die, Ilva begins uncovering why her father willingly gave away the kingdom. The truth could return her crown—or reveal that Orsanne was never meant to survive another queen.