May We Feed the King

A museum curator has built her career on making history feel alive, painstakingly recreating medieval interiors so convincingly that they appear frozen in the moments just after their occupants have stepped away. When she is commissioned to restore the private chambers of a long-forgotten royal palace, her fascination with the past deepens into an all-consuming obsession.

As she pieces together the life of an overlooked medieval king, the fragments of his story begin to intertwine with her own. The reluctant monarch, thrust onto the throne after the unexpected deaths of his brothers, rules under the shadow of doubt as whispers of rebellion echo through the court. With every artifact and faded document the curator uncovers, the distance between past and present grows increasingly uncertain.

Blending historical fiction with literary mystery, May We Feed the King explores the fragile relationship between memory and history, questioning how lives are reconstructed from incomplete records and how the stories that endure can reshape the truth. Richly atmospheric and emotionally resonant, this striking debut reflects on devotion, longing, and the enduring power of the past to transform the present.