The Gilded Crown Race
You can chart the lost mountain realm, but can you survive your rival?
The Crownfall Trials offer a royal pardon for your exiled father, but the deadly race through a treacherous, uncharted mountain realm demands a partner. Forced to team up with your office rival—the one person whose ambition matches your own—you must navigate avalanches, ancient traps, and the growing tension between you. With the prize on the line, every step could be your last, and every glance from your rival could be a betrayal—or something more. It's a high-stakes adventure where survival, trust, and desire collide.
The story begins
The herald’s voice still echoed off the marble colonnades when the parchment landed in your palm, the royal seal warm as a fresh brand. Team assignments. You’d already memorized the field—thirty-two cartographers, rangers, and fools chasing a pardon that could scrub your father’s name from every ledger in the capital.
Then you saw the second name, inked in the same clerk’s hand that had signed your dismissal notice three years ago.
Rian.
You looked up. He stood across the courtyard, already shrugging into a battered pack, his grin sharp as a split lip. “Don’t look so thrilled, mapmaker,” he called, loud enough for the crowd to turn. “I’ve climbed worse with a broken compass and a hangover. You just try to keep up.”
The starting horn would sound at dawn. The Crownfall’s first switchback was a day’s hard march from the city gates, and already the other teams were moving—mules laden, scouts whispering over old charts. Rian’s grin didn’t reach his eyes. He was watching you the way he watched a chessboard.
Waiting for you to flinch.
What happens next is up to you.
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