Featured Author: Elena Van Peborgh
The world had burned long before she ever picked up a blade. Madison was taught to hunt monsters, but no one warned her that hatred, once planted, grows its own teeth.
Belgian author Elena Van Peborgh writes emotionally intense, character-driven fiction where power is never simple and strength is never without cost. Raised in a family of storytellers, she grew up surrounded by narrative instinct. Both her grandfather and father wrote, and from an early age she understood that stories are not merely entertainment, they are inheritance.
At eight years old, a teacher recognized her ability to shape a narrative and encouraged her to take it seriously. That encouragement lingered. As a teenager, she wrote her debut novel Dragon Dream, which later reached the Top 50 in its category on German Amazon and gathered a loyal European readership before her publisher closed. She later republished The Ice Queen, part of The Queen’s Throne series, before shifting her focus fully toward adult fiction exploring loyalty, survival, political tension, and the quiet wars fought within.
About The Ice Queen
In The Ice Queen, a dark New Adult epic fantasy, Earth has been transformed by apocalyptic catastrophe. Sunshine is rare. Rain is scarce. Supernatural kingdoms rule what remains: werewolves in Paudesia, vampires in Lythora, hybrids in Naremia, witches and warlocks in Mysaulia.
At the center stands Madison—the Ice Queen—crown princess of Mysaulia. Raised as a warrior and hunter, trained to despise all supernatural creatures, she is disciplined, powerful, and unyielding. Yet when a special assignment challenges everything she has been taught to believe, Madison is forced to confront not only her enemies, but her own convictions.
Van Peborgh set out to create a heroine who embodies strength and independence while struggling with mental health. Madison’s power is real, but so is her vulnerability. The novel explores the tension between outward resilience and inner fragility, asking whether hate can ever truly protect us, or whether it slowly freezes the heart that carries it.
Official Book Blurb
Earth is a kingdom of beasts, and one princess protects mankind.
In the future, Earth has succumbed to ruin, irrevocably altered by catastrophe of an apocalyptic scale. In a world where there is barely any sunshine or rain, supernatural creatures have taken over. There is Paudesia, the land of werewolves. Lythora, the vampire kingdom. Naremia, the kingdom of vampire-werewolf hybrids. And Mysaulia, the kingdom of witches and warlocks.
Madison, the Ice Queen and crown princess of Mysaulia, has been trained as a warrior and hunter. She has learned to hate all supernatural creatures. But one day, she receives a special assignment that may force her to reconsider everything she has been taught.
Will she be able to let go of her hate?
The book is available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Queen-Queens-Throne-Book-ebook/dp/B0CLKYP676
Current Work
Elena is currently working on a new political romantic drama set in an alternate 1990s Europe, continuing her exploration of power, loyalty, and emotional survival.
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