The Uncrowned Queen. The ghost on the throne. King at last, Loki finds himself trapped behind Odin’s mask and isolated from the woman in whom he longs to confide. Precisely the reasons he wants her condemn him to silence. Reveal his secret to Sigyn, and he knows she’ll depose him. Instead, he watches as the common-born nobody he broke all the rules to marry becomes the king’s most dangerous rival. She can do nothing else but defy you. You can do nothing else but want her. Neither witch nor warrior. Soft, gentle, frequently othered, and routinely underestimated by those who mistake her kindness for weakness, Asgard’s scholar princess can’t cast spells or wield a weapon, but Sigyn’s kindness only sharpens, never blunts, an intellect as formidable as that of any Stark and guided by compassion and her own principles. A very ordinary Asgardian among so-called demi-gods, she has just one power: the audacity to believe her sense of right and wrong could merit—even demand—high treason. Councilor Galinsdottir. She’s spent centuries watching Odin gamble with the lives of ordinary people throughout the Nine Realms and seen her husband become a tyrant in his tortured quest to please and then eclipse him. Now, “first woman in Asgard” since Frigga’s death, she quickly becomes the focus of a popular political movement, a mantle she reluctantly accepts—at first. Forced to grant her a seat on the king’s council, Loki and Sigyn are constantly at odds, but at least from here he can keep his unpredictable widow under close watch.
