The Crown was never meant to last. But the king who forged it won’t let go.

Months after the battle that nearly shattered Olympus, Lyra Thane serves as an uneasy guardian between gods and mortals. The fragile peace she helped broker is crumbling. Storms without divine origin batter the Aegean. Sacred ground cracks and bleeds. And something ancient is waking beneath the earth, something that knows her name.

When a colossal entity tears through the sky declaring itself the Heir of the First King, Lyra discovers a devastating truth: the Crown of Dominion, an artefact forged from stolen Titan essence, still operates in the depths beneath Crete. For three thousand years, it has drained imprisoned gods to fuel Olympian supremacy. And now the pressure is building toward catastrophe.

To unmake the Crown, Lyra must descend into the Labyrinth, not a maze but a machine, the greatest ever built, with only a mortal engineer and her own unstable power to guide her. But the Crown responds to Titan blood, and touching it will change her forever. Meanwhile, Zeus will stop at nothing to reclaim the source of his stolen authority.

The cycle of control runs from father to son, from Kronos to Zeus, from fear to dominion. Breaking it will demand more than power.

It will demand sacrifice.

Titanborn: Crown of Ash and Thunder is the second book in The Titanborn Saga, a mythic fantasy epic for readers who love Madeline Miller, Leigh Bardugo, and Jennifer Saint.