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political intrigue
Fantasy RomanceThe Queen Without a Kingdom
In Orsanne, power belongs only to those who lawfully own the ground—and every use of magic destroys part of it forever. Eleven days after her coronation, Queen Ilva Adarre is stripped of nine million spans by a perfectly legal deed and exiled to a wasteland where she is powerless. But her father’s grave still belongs to her. With only a few feet of earth and the reluctant protection of Kell Sarrowe, a border lord ordered to let her die, Ilva begins uncovering why her father willingly gave away the kingdom. The truth could return her crown—or reveal that Orsanne was never meant to survive another queen.
New story · 0 savedFantasy Romance / RomantasyThe King Who Fell From Heaven
When a naked stranger falls from the sky, Idra Vell plans to sell him before anyone discovers what he is. Then he tells her his name. Oriel—the vanished King of Heaven. He knows the secrets of the world above, but almost nothing about surviving below. Idra knows exactly how cruel heaven can be: it took her sister and never gave her back. Their bargain should be simple. Idra will return the fallen king to the Stair. In exchange, Oriel will bring her sister home. But the closer they get to heaven, the uglier its miracles become. Every blessing has a price. Every year of immortality belonged to someone first. And the kingdom Oriel once ruled may have survived for centuries by consuming the lives of the people who worshipped it. Now heaven wants its king back. Idra wants her sister. And Oriel must decide whether to reclaim the throne he lost—or help the woman he loves bring heaven down.
New story · 0 savedPolitical ThrillerTHE AI PRESIDENT CHOSE ME
In 2061 Nigeria, twenty-seven-year-old mathematics teacher Ndidi Obiora is chosen by Baba, the machine executive that has governed the country for eleven years, to become the twelfth Consent Citizen. Her job sounds simple: hear the government’s deadliest decisions, demand the working, understand the cost, and sign. But every correct decision leaves bodies behind. As Ndidi uncovers why Baba specifically chose her, she becomes trapped between a machine that never lies, a former president fighting to return power to human hands, and Sotonye Briggs—the Voice assigned to explain each deadly act, whose own carefully arranged truths may have shaped every signature before hers. Thirty-one acts are waiting. The final one could determine whether machine government survives at all.
New story · 0 savedEpic Fantasy / Myth / GodsWhen the Gods Went to War
One god chose a mortal to hold what was breaking. One mortal king chose to burn the sky down for what the gods let happen to his family. Neither of them asked her. Wren Ash is twenty-four, a swordsmith's daughter, and the last living Warden-blood — the only mortal alive whose vow can still hold a Seal against the Drowned Kings sleeping beneath the world. When Seal Four cracks, the Aureate Court marks her as its Herald, burning her mortal years to fuel a fire she never agreed to carry. As a grieving king marches toward the last Seal with a war nine centuries old and a debt no one will name, Wren has to decide whether being chosen is the same thing as being spent — and whether the only god willing to stand beside her is worth the cost of choosing him back.
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SteampunkThe Clockwork Saint
When a miracle-granting machine chooses a disgraced mechanic as its saint, every answered prayer exposes another body hidden inside the cathedral walls.
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