Scorpica (Five Queendoms, The Book 1)

Five hundred years of peace between five matriarchal queendoms collapses when girls stop being born. As this Drought of Girls extends across a generation, political and personal upheaval spreads across all five queendoms, destabilizing long-standing alliances and creating internal threats to each nation. The narrative follows multiple women whose lives intersect across the queendoms: a warrior queen who must fight for survival and her throne after childbirth, a healer in hiding protecting her daughter's dangerous power, a queen willing to use dark magic to maintain control, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod with world-altering abilities, and the lastborn girls—those born just before the Drought began—who now carry the hopes and traditions of their nations. Their stories converge as the queendoms face potential collapse.