GODDESS CROWN

302pp., paperback, London, 2024

Young adult fantasy novel.

Kalothia has been raised in hiding after her parents were outed as enemies of the king. When assassins attack her home on her sixteenth birthday, she must flee to the king’s court, a glamorous and treacherous world dominated by powerful men. To survive and avenge those she loves, Kalothia must claim the power she was born to wield.

Shade Lapite was born in London to parents who had moved to the UK from Nigeria. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Goddess Crown is her first novel.