The Puppet Line: Book 11
Emily Herr

Known only as The Keeper, this master manipulator begins a quiet war, not with armies, but with whispers. A forged letter, a carefully planted doubt—he targets the fragile fault lines within the family, turning their love and loyalty against them in a brilliant, cruel game.
To fight a puppeteer, Ava must become one herself. She orchestrates a terrifying performance, faking a descent into madness and cruelty. She pushes her wife away, shatters her sisters’ trust, and embraces the role of a cold, ruthless Tsar, all part of a dangerous gambit to lure her true enemy into the light.
Forced to watch from behind a wall of their own, Kacey and the Shield Line are horrified witnesses to Ava's apparent betrayal. They are now puppets in a war they don't understand, their hearts hanging by the very strings Ava is pulling.
Is Ava's performance a masterstroke of deception, or has the weight of her new crowns finally shattered her? In The Puppet Line, every loyalty will be tested, and the price of cutting the strings may be a betrayal from which their family can never recover.