King’s - 9
The Secrets of Dagome series ends here. Queen’s Gambit, the epic conclusion to Roksana and Reynard’s story, arrives on 14 October 2026, and today you get the cover and the full blurb.
Some covers you approve politely. This one I stared at for a solid minute before remembering to breathe. Roksana has come a long way from the poisoner hiding behind a healer’s satchel in Poisoned Kingdom, and this cover shows exactly who she has become. Not the assassin. Not the shadow. The Queen. Have a look.
Queen’s Gambit · Secrets of Dagome, Book Three · 14 October 2026
She earned this cover the hard way. Two books of poison, betrayal, dungeons and a king who refused to stay dead. Now the endgame. And because I know exactly what you scrolled here for, the blurb.
She is the broken queen of a burning kingdom, and its only hope.
Roksana survived. Now she is a Shadow trapped in the palace, whose dreams never left Tivala’s dungeon. A queen without the title. And a woman fighting to reclaim what the Empire tried to break.
But the peace she paid for was never meant to last.
When imperial galleons blacken the shore, Reynard rushes to prepare his army while she hunts the traitors who shattered their alliance.
Then corrupted magic brings death to her betrothal ball, and a gift from the king awakens a power locked in her bloodline.
With untamed magic burning within her and a dragon’s love fiercer than the Empire’s pyres, Roksana must step out of the shadows and become the Queen her kingdom needs.
Even if saving Dagome transforms her into a monster far worse than the ones she fights.
The epic conclusion to the Secrets of Dagome series.
Yes, you read the last line correctly. A monster far worse than the ones she fights. I am a Polish author with a medical background. You did not expect a soft landing, did you?
The finale releases on 14 October 2026 and pre-orders are open now. If you know your kingdom-burning plans in advance, secure your copy and the book appears on your device at midnight while you sleep, blissfully unaware of what awaits Roksana at her betrothal ball.
Perfect timing. Two books stand between you and release day, which is exactly the right amount of Slavic fantasy romance to devour before October. Start with Poisoned Kingdom, where an assassin sent to kill a king becomes his obsession instead, continue with King’s Shadow and arrive at Queen’s Gambit fully invested and emotionally unprepared.
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