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Gold Dust Queen by lighttofthewest
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
07 Mar 2026
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Summary
In the rotting heart of King’s Landing, Queen Cersei is drowning. Haunted by prophecies of a younger, more beautiful queen and her own nightmares, she is backed into a corner. Margaery Tyrell is imprisoned, but Cersei knows a cage won't stop a rose from blooming. She needs a weapon that can strike from the shadows of the Great Sept without leaving a trace of Lannister gold behind.
At Cersei’s darkest hour, Qyburn calls in his greatest debt. He summons a phantom from the North: Bethella, the bastard daughter of Roose Bolton. Once a pawn for her father, Bethella fled the life of a Lady to become something "other." She is to arrive to the capital and do what the Queen cannot: infiltrate the High Sparrow’s sanctum and erase Margaery from existence.
But in a city built on betrayal, even the best laid plans crumble. And now, as the Queen faces immediate, visceral danger, she is left with only one ally. Not a knight or a brother, but the girl who refused to be a person.