Fate of the Sun King

Fate of the Sun King is the third installment in Tuli’s four-part Artefacts of Ouranos series. The saga is set in the fictional world of Ouranos, a continent divided into seven realms, with each monarch’s power tied to a divine Artefact. The series begins with Trial of the Sun Queen, which introduces Lor, a young woman who has been imprisoned for 12 years in the brutal Nostraza prison. She is mysteriously plucked from her cell by the duplicitous Sun King, Atlas, and forced to compete in the deadly Sun Queen Trials designed to select a worthy bride for the Sun King, despite the fact that she has no known royal blood or fae magic. No human contender has ever survived the trials.

Hoping a victory will give her the power to free her imprisoned siblings, Lor survives terrifying magical challenges while being pursued by Atlas and attracting the suspicion of Prince Nadir, the son of her former captor. Ultimately, Lor discovers that her placement in the trial is tied to a larger, dark conspiracy and her hidden identity as the royal heir of the destroyed Heart Queendom, revealing King Atlas as a manipulative tyrant who only abducted Lor to siphon her hidden power and cement his own illegitimate rule over the Sun Kingdom. Lor passes the final trial but, at her request, the Mirror Artefact selects another contender as the winner. A furious Atlas throws Lor in the dungeons, but she’s kidnapped by Prince Nadir and taken back to the Aurora.

The second book, Rule of the Aurora King, picks up immediately after the trials, with Nadir and Lor fleeing Aphelion. To win Lor’s trust, Nadir rescues her imprisoned siblings, Willow and Tristan. Lor reveals her hidden lineage, and Nadir confesses his plan to overthrow his tyrannical father. Together, they locate the Heart Crown, the Heart realm’s lost Artefact, but Lor’s magic remains locked. Nadir and Lor grow closer and an intense magical bond develops between them. After narrowly escaping an ambush by the Aurora King using an erratic burst of Lor’s magic, they realize they must sneak back into the Sun Kingdom to awaken the Crown’s power.

This third novel follows Lor, Nadir, and their friends as they attempt to infiltrate Aphelion, hunted by both King Rion and King Atlas. With the Crown in hand, Lor seeks answers from Aphelion’s Artefact, the Mirror, hoping it will reveal the key to unleashing her full power.