Caelan Vaelor Ashbourne

The Ashbourne Legacy I

The Heir of Eclipse

Five-year-old Auction 2 has no name, no family, and no hope. Trapped inside The Crimson Auction, a ruthless international syndicate that kidnaps and sells children through the dark web, he knows only fear and survival.

Everything changes when Supreme Commander Kael Draven Ashbourne, leader of the secret organization hidden on Halcyra Island, launches a rescue mission after discovering the boy's existence. Given a new life, a new family, and a new name-Caelan Vaelor Ashbourne-the once-forgotten child grows into the first of the twenty Ashbourne heirs, determined to ensure that no child ever suffers the fate he escaped.

Fifteen years later, Commander Caelan leads ECLIPSE-8, an elite tactical unit of Citadel Zero. But when intelligence reveals that The Crimson Auction has returned under the disguise of the Aurelia Child Development Initiative, old wounds reopen and an unfinished war begins again.

Along the mission, Caelan crosses paths with Amara Celeste Villanueva-Hart, a Filipino-British MI6 intelligence officer coordinating with the NBI. What begins as suspicion slowly turns into trust, then love, as they uncover a conspiracy reaching far beyond human trafficking.

Together with ECLIPSE-8 and the Ashbourne family, Caelan must confront the ghosts of his past, dismantle the syndicate that stole his childhood, and protect countless innocent lives before history repeats itself.

A story of family, healing, sacrifice, and hope, Heir of Eclipse is the beginning of The Ashbourne Legacy, where twenty heirs stand between darkness and the children who deserve a future.