Iselde Fenn

When the king dies without naming an heir, three great houses claim the throne. Each house commissions the Court Cartographer to document their territorial claim—their boundaries, their historical rights, their legal basis for succession. Cartographer Iselde Fenn accepts all three commissions. She is a professional. She documents claims accurately. What she doesn't expect is to discover, in the course of her work, that the maps in the sealed room adjacent to the king's study contain borders she has never seen—boundaries that point toward a fourth claimant no one knew existed. *The Glass Succession* is political fantasy about succession, cartography, and the question of who gets to draw the borders that define a kingdom. It follows Iselde through the formal succession process—commissions from all three houses, access to all three archives, and the slow accumulation of evidence that the official record is incomplete. The kingdom of Aldenmere has three recognized noble houses: Carath in the eastern territories, Vorn in the northern lands, and Aldenmere itself, the house of the old kings, whose senior representative believes the throne should return to its original holders. Each house has a claim. Each house has documentation. Each house believes their claim is the one the council will ratify. What Iselde discovers in the sealed room is a fourth set of borders—older than any of the three recognized claims, pointing toward territories that no longer exist on official maps, and a lineage that was removed from the historical record so thoroughly that only the king's private maps remember it. The novel is built on authentic cartographic practice and political intrigue. Iselde is not a hero in the conventional sense—she is a professional who documents territorial claims, who believes that accurate maps are a form of truth, and who is now holding evidence that the truth has been edited. She has to decide what to do with what she knows: which house to inform, whether to inform