Prince to a Broken Crown book cover — a golden crown and a blue tiara on a sunset beach, scattered with red rose petals.

A debut YA fantasy novel

Prince to a
Broken Crown

A vow made over a grave. A secret she can't outrun. A prince who could change everything.

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The Story

About the Book

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Tegan has made a promise — to her murdered best friend, Anastasia, and to herself: she will find whoever is responsible, and they will pay. It is the kind of vow a person makes in the rawest hours of grief, and Tegan intends to keep every word of it.

But grief is not the only thing Tegan carries. She is living two lives, and she is terrified of the moment they collide. There is so much she hasn't told the people she loves — so much she swore she never would. As long as her past stays buried, she tells herself, everything can stay exactly as it is. And she likes it that way.

Then a boy discovers he is a prince, and the careful world Tegan has built begins to crack. Old loyalties, first love, and a truth she has guarded with everything she has all rise to the surface at once — and the family she was born into runs headlong toward the family she chose.

Prince to a Broken Crown is a sweeping story about grief and devotion, about love that arrives like a fairytale and the courage it takes to let it in — and about the families we are given versus the ones we build for ourselves.

From the First Page

The Dedication

Dedicated to anyone who lost a friend. May you find your way back to each other. And to my grandfather — if he was here to see my book, I know he would be proud of me. I miss my best friend so much.

— Leah

Meet the Author

Leah Noto

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Leah Noto is a teenage author who has dreamed of writing a book for as long as she can remember — and with Prince to a Broken Crown, that dream has come true. It is her debut novel, brought to life with illustrations by Elizabeth McConnell.

"I love writing because if there is a chance that I can make even one person feel the way I do when I am reading, I am going to try my very best to do so. Sometimes I need to live in fiction for a while, and that is okay. I hope with my book that is how you felt — not like you were reading a story off a piece of paper, but living the lives of Tegan and Archer."

For Leah, the characters stopped being characters somewhere along the way. "To me, it is no longer a story," she writes. "I am concerningly attached to every one of them." Her goal is simple: to bring a little joy into a reader's life, and maybe to help them clear their mind and live a whole other life for a while.

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