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Crown of Shadows
Paperback
Series: The Diadem Chronicles, Book 1
FantasyGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Jane Pane
Published: Oct 3 2025
Pages: 604
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
nt Petersburg, 1914.
The stage is cold, the spotlight unforgiving - but it's the only place she feels alive.
Anna is just another face in the corps de ballet at the Imperial Theater. Invisible, replaceable, obedient. Until one rehearsal changes everything. A famed répétiteur notices her. A powerful patron watches from the shadows. And the memory of a vanished ballerina - whose final performance ended in mystery - begins to surface.
At the heart of it all is a crown. A delicate diadem once worn by the missing star, now said to be cursed - or enchanted. When Anna finds herself drawn into its legacy, she must decide: will she follow the path of brilliance and danger, or step away into a life of quiet safety with the man who loves her?
But the stage does not give up its chosen easily.
Crown of Shadows is a sweeping historical novel woven with gothic mystery, forbidden desire, and the sacrifices demanded by art.
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