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Ruling with a New Frame

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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Locked in the cold cellar by her grandmother, six-year-old Linnet Penhallow dies of fever and wakes as the Empress her family descends from, who has thirty-one years of court craft, a healer's hands and two weeks to save herself.

Tropes & themes: medical · dramatic · contemporary · female lead · redemption arc · inheritance war · rebirth · revenge · sweet · scheming relatives · found family · family drama

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Quiet Room (free)
  2. Chapter 2: Not the Cellar Stairs (free)
  3. Chapter 3: The House Is a Court (free)
  4. Chapter 4: Pinpoint Eyes (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: Kneeling at Supper (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: The Yellow Aunt (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: Slow Child (free with an account)
  8. Chapter 8: What a Father Owes (free with an account)
  9. Chapter 9: Gone in the Night (free with an account)
  10. Chapter 10: The Vault (free with an account)
  11. Chapter 11: My Own Hand (free with an account)
  12. Chapter 12: The Dawn Car (free with an account)
  13. Chapter 13: The Lake House (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: A Mother's Lie (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: The Founders' Dinner (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: The Missing Page (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: The Doctor Sweats (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: Joanna Leaves (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: The Matriarch's Chair (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: Mercy Is Not Pardon (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: Edmund's Penance (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Open Door (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: Seven Candles (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: The New Book (locked)

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