Forget Everything You Know About Love Stories. In a palace where silence is law and emotion is a contaminant to be catalogued and contained, one cracked jar will unleash a revolution of feeling. Love and the Queen is not a fairy tale. It is a seismic event in book form. Meet Queen Anya the Perpetual: a ruler sculpted from ice and starlight, who has not spoken in three centuries. Her kingdom is a labyrinth of frozen perfection, where time flows like chilled honey and love is not forbidden-it is imprisoned in glass jars, a dangerous specimen to be studied from a safe distance. Meet Lysander, the Keeper of Minor Melancholies: a lonely man whose job is to catalogue dust and decay, until a single act of curiosity-unleashing a captured ember of longing-ignites a fire that will consume a world of silence. Condemned to walk in her shadow as her Custodian, Lysander becomes witness to the terrifying, glacial thaw of a goddess. This is a courtship that warps reality itself: where corridors develop loving curves, statues of petrified laughter begin to sigh, and a love letter is written in the architecture of a shifting, breathing palace. But this awakening comes at a cost. The Queen's perfect order is the only thing containing the chaotic, folded realities at the edge of existence. As emotion bleeds back into the world, it attracts the attention of cold, cosmic forces-the Archivists of the Grand Lexicon-to whom love is not a feeling, but a multiversal contagion that must be purged. For fans of the lyrical strangeness of Piranesi, the sweeping cosmic romance of This Is How You Lose the Time War, and the intricate world-building of The Starless Sea, comes a breathtaking epic that is as intellectually daring as it is emotionally devastating. Love and the Queen is a story about the most dangerous force in existence: the human heart. It is a profound exploration of what it means to feel, to connect, and to defy the very laws of the universe for a chance at something real. This is not a story you read. It is a world you fall into. And you will not emerge unchanged. Dare to crack the cover. The silence is waiting to be broken.