Inherit The Stars – Amy Ressa

“If you have a moment, help would be welcome. I am searching for early Conclave records.” I join him at the table. Sorting the ancient bindings brings a steady rhythm that quiets my thoughts. “What exactly are you researching?” I ask. “Governance,” he says. “Or what is left of it. The original framework of the Conclave before it was rewritten.” I place another book into a neat stack. “I thought the trials were simply a way to choose a ruler that could unite all of the planetary kingdoms.

Were they different before?” He sits, resting a volume across his knees. “The founders called it the Covenant of Twelve, back when there were lesser moons and outer rim colonies that had kingdoms like ours. It was meant to help determine who could lead justly,” he says. I take the seat across from him. “How did it work?” Approval crosses his face, brief but sincere. He opens the book again. “Each House sent a candidate who demonstrated three virtues: strength, intellect, and empathy.

The trials were not meant to determine who was strongest, smartest, or anything like that. They were actually meant to reveal which candidates could not be trusted with power.” “How did they do that exactly?” “No one ‘won’ any trials or competitions,” Lord Evander explains. “They all worked together.

The Houses talked. Argued. Forged alliances. Once consensus formed around the candidate least corrupted by ambition, the Covenant allowed them to lead. Any House could halt the process with a single refusal. Unity was required, not victory.” I blink, letting this information sink in. “That sounds … impossible.” “It was difficult by design. Which is why it worked.”

He turns a page with careful admiration. “The Houses depended on one another. Resources, trade routes, military support. No one dared manipulate the outcome because they could not afford to lose the others. And the Cardinals guarded the Covenant with absolute authority.” He pauses. “Until Solric of House Sun.” I swallow hard. Lord Evander turns another page, the blue light cutting fine lines into the skin around his eyes. “He discovered loopholes. He followed every rule … technically. Never outright tampered with a trial.

Inherit the Stars is the first book in the Solar Sovereign series. It is a Romantasy with grounded sci-fi elements, told in a first-person POV from a bisexual female main character. There are multiple love interests both male and female, and ends in a cliffhanger. It contains mature themes, explicit sexual content, and is intended for readers ages 18+. Please note the following trigger warnings.

This may include spoilers for the book. Trigger warnings: depictions of magical addiction and withdrawal, chronic illness, political and physical violence, war trauma, explicit sexual content between consenting adults, grief, and psychological manipulation. Elements of blood, injury, and healing are portrayed in sensory detail. Reader discretion is advised. OceanofPDF.com To the reader – By moonlight and by daylight, fight for love and justice. Choose truth even when it hurts. And when the darkness feels overwhelming, just remember: you don’t have to face it alone.

OceanofPDF.com M y palm settles over the wound as I lie to myself: this is for him, not for me. He can’t be more than six, slumped against the alley wall, left for dead as blood pools black beneath him. His hair is dark, matted to his forehead with sweat and grime.

Small fingers curl against the cracked cobblestones, nails broken and dirty. He’s wearing what might have once been a shirt, now little more than torn fabric barely clinging to his thin frame. No shoes. His feet are pale against the filth of the alley. Through the thick crimson glow of Marslight, I watch as his eyelids flutter briefly, a shallow breath rattling his tiny ribcage.

He’s all sharp angles and hollow cheeks that speak of too many hungry nights. The wars left Mars with more wounded and starving souls than we could keep up with, and the Cardinals cut what little aid we had left. His injury is deep, and as I crouch next to him, I can see sharp bone protruding from his chest.

My fingers find sinew and cartilage, slowing down time as a rising tension begins to build inside me. I feel the magic coil high and light beneath my skin, slowly stretching through my veins, slippery and ethereal. Then … it hits. A crescendo of pleasure erupts from within me, drowning out the world.

I lose all sense of time and place, not even registering the broken cobblestones beneath me anymore. I just feel this – the throbbing of blood being pushed through veins, and the skin like warm threads sewing shut. The addiction sinks its claws deeper with each pulse …

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