The Wolf of Oren-Yaro

Talyien is queen of a kingdom split by years of war. She was born under the towers of Oren-yaro. Her people call her the Bitch Queen and the she-wolf, because she killed a man and exiled her king the night before her crowning.

Her marriage to the son of a rival clan was meant to bring peace. Her intended husband vanished before their reign could begin. Years later, a message reaches her and sends her across the sea, in an attempt to settle the past.

The trip goes badly. Talyien ends up stranded in a land she does not know. Assassins are close behind her, and she has no clear sense of whom to trust. Survival depends on leaning into the name she carries, since a wolf of Oren-yaro is not tamed.

This is epic fantasy told in the first person, in the voice of a queen who is already notorious and has her own account to give. Action, political intrigue and betrayal drive it, with the stakes kept personal as she moves through unfamiliar territory.