The Thorned Candidate
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The Thorned Candidate - Part 1 - The Uncrowned Candidate by WorldTreeTheory
Fandoms: 本好きの下剋上 - 香月美夜 | Honzuki no Gekokujou | Ascendance of a Bookworm Series - Kazuki Miya
13 Nov 2025
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In a world ruled by power and perception, Georgine is expected to leave quietly. Sentenced to a political engagement and a life of irrelevance, she’s all but written off by her family and duchy. But when a strange temple girl whispers forgotten truths and sacred rituals long neglected, Georgine begins to grasp a new future—one she will have to claim for herself.
Secrets stir within the Temple’s stone walls. Loyalties shift, prayers deepen, and power begins to flow in unexpected ways. As factions tighten around the Archducal throne, one woman dares to rewrite the ending she was given.She is not crowned. Not yet.
But she is no longer standing down.
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- Part 1 of The Thorned Candidate
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The Thorned Candidate - Part 2 - The Thorned Inheritance by WorldTreeTheory
Fandoms: 本好きの下剋上 - 香月美夜 | Honzuki no Gekokujou | Ascendance of a Bookworm Series - Kazuki Miya
09 Mar 2026
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Inheritance was supposed to be the beginning of stability. Instead, Georgine finds herself navigating a court full of watching eyes and shifting loyalties.
The higher she climbs, the more precarious the ground beneath her becomes.
The temple strains without its guiding light.
The castle whispers.
And the nobles of Ehrenfest begin choosing their sides, one quiet conversation at a time.But power does not reward hesitation.
Nor mercy.
Nor fear.As the seasons turn, Georgine must forge the strength to lead — even as the cost of that leadership grows sharper, heavier, and impossible to ignore.
This is Part 2 of my story: "The Thorned Candidate". PLEASE make sure that you have read Part 1, "The Uncrowned Candidate", before enjoying this one. Or else you will likely be very confused very quickly
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- Part 2 of The Thorned Candidate