𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆﹐forbidden love. it was the girl's ultimate demise. falling for the opposing race, finding a glimmer of redemption in him. it caused her downfall and the loss of her powers and the thing she treasured most; her memories with him. yet a friend is relentless in restoring her to her former glory and receiving some help in return.

→˚₊· 𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ੭*→˚₊· 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 ੭*

After a pardon from the King keeps Anne Boleyn's head firmly on her shoulders, she is exiled to the country to live no longer as Queen of England, but as the significantly less powerful, less influential and less wealthy Marquess of Pembroke.

As court life continues on without her, king Henry VIII moves on to his third, fourth, fifth and sixth wives, and Anne Boleyn deals with the effects of her almost-execution that left her suffering from trauma and turned the lives of her sister, daughter, and all those near her upside down. Determined to get Elizabeth to the throne, she hatches a plan that involves poison, intrigue and the killing of a king. She no longer has anything of value left to lose.

(Title comes from a quote by Elizabeth I herself: "I may not be a lion, but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart”)