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A Game So Wicked And Cruel

The Queen's Court #1 / 2
by Shawn J. Carr
A Game So Wicked And Cruel (The Queen's Court #1) by Shawn J. Carr
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She’s enjoyed ruining lives for years.
He’s been tasked with reshaping her.
While another will happily break her.

Lenora Munroe cares little for the holidays—Christmas, to be exact. Especially when this year her brother would like her to sell the one thing she cares for to him.

But before she can threaten to burn the family company to the ground, an ethereal entity from Alynthian drags both her niece and her through a portal to the land of endless possibilities. Once there, the ghost she’d like to kill tasks her with stealing a jewel from the Kingdom of Pavilion.

When she refuses him, the ghost shows her three horrifying fates that could occur to both her and her niece if she were to refuse him again. Once alone, Lenora fights to find out the location of her niece before their time runs out.

But unforeseen obstacles get in her way, and she is forced to play the Werewolf Prince of Pavilion’s wickedly cruel games, which could be the undoing of them both.

This is book one in the Queen’s Court series, set in the world of Alynthian, and can be read in whatever order the reader chooses. It’s a new adult fantasy-romance retelling of The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, with Cruella de Vil as the lead protagonist.

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Updated 06/21/2025
Category: Fantasy, Retellings, Romance
Release date: 2025

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