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In a world ruled by six sacred royal houses, every crown is more than gold. It is bloodline, law, power, and divine burden.
House Sol'Kharis has ruled the Black Sun lands for over a thousand years through eclipse law, ancestral fire, sacred lions, crows of omen, and absolute royal discipline. Azekar Sol'Kharis has spent his entire life being shaped for the Obsidian Throne. He never believed the crown was something to want. It was simply what he was born to carry.
Until the day it refuses him.
During his public succession ceremony, the eclipse arrives three days early. The sacred lions do not bow. The gathered royal houses witness Black Sun's failure, and Azekar's future fractures in front of the world.
But the rejection awakens something in him he did not expect: desire.
As his family searches for the reason the eclipse turned against him, an old rumor resurfaces. Nearly a century ago, a royal branch was erased from the line after a prince was accused of murdering a king during a forbidden eclipse rite. The official story made him a traitor.
The truth is far darker.
The accused prince may have been the only one who tried to save the Black Sun covenant - and his descendants may still carry the authority the throne has been missing.
That lost bloodline leads to Korvan Drey, a Dragon Crown heir with his own throne, his own betrothal, and no desire to be claimed by Black Sun politics. But when the eclipse marks Korvan as chosen, both realms are thrown into crisis.
Now Azekar must face the one thing he was never trained to survive: not losing the crown, but learning what the crown was truly for.
A mythic royal fantasy of sacred bloodlines, dangerous beauty, ancestral lies, cousin-rivals, divine law, and the war that begins when a crown chooses wrong - or perhaps chooses too well.