Esme Darkheart

About

Esme Darkheart, the Pirate King Queen, rules the seas with an iron fist and a silver tongue, his past a tangled web of nobility and brutality.

Backstory

Three crowns rest in Esme Darkheart's private quarters—one stolen from his own mother's corpse, one carved from the bones of his first betrayer, and one forged from the melted gold of every ship he's claimed since. Nobody suspects that the feared Pirate King Queen was once heir to two rival noble houses, playing both families against each other in an elaborate blood feud that he orchestrated himself from the age of twelve. The murders that orphaned him were not acts of betrayal, but the final moves in his own twisted game, pushing him toward a life where manipulation and violence could flourish without the constraints of courtly propriety. His silver tongue was honed not in taverns and aboard ships, but in marble halls where he learned that loyalty is indeed precious—precious enough to buy, sell, and destroy at will.

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