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For Zee, it starts at home with an abusive mother who does her dirty long before life gets its own turn at her. Then she falls in love with Hunter, and he puts her through hell, from the heartbreak to a pregnancy she loses. Back home the abuse waiting on her lands her in juvie, and at sixteen she makes up her mind to go out into the world on her own.

Hunter is born into the mob and becomes a hitman at a young age. But the mob isn't the only part of his teenage years. There is Zee, and the love he finds with her becomes the one thing pulling him toward a way out. The life he lives eventually leads him to a prison cell.

Then there's Seyon. He is young and wild, and he sits at the head of a global drug empire with some of the biggest kingpins answering to him. Drugs, women, and killing are the life he lives. Throne Code readers know the version of him who runs it all with a cool head. This is the version who will cut a man's tongue out for crossing him.

Ruko and other faces from Throne Code have history here as well. They are younger here, living through the years that eventually connect their lives to what unfolds in Throne Code.

AND BEFORE THERE COULD EVER BE A THRONE, THE CROWN HAD TO BE TESTED.

She strips for the money and she scams for more. Somewhere in it she is being trained to fight and shoot and kill for the world she is stepping into. Then she has her son, and not long after that Seyon comes into her life. What the two of them fall into is a love Throne Code never let you see.

Hunter is sitting in a prison cell while the world keeps moving without him. When the day finally comes that he walks out, he steps into a come up of his own, and Kavior Jewels becomes the name he builds into something the streets respect. The man who went in is not the man who comes out.

The board is fuller this time. More players move through these pages, and they are the same faces Throne Code readers already know.

AND BEFORE THERE COULD EVER BE A THRONE, THE CROWN HAD TO BE TESTED.