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"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥."
Kythe Catamount is talented, witty, and quite the ladies' man. He's the son of the General to the late king, and now has an important task that hold pressure on his shoulders like the wood lumbers haul onto theirs.
The King of Aurethia, His Majesty Thalric Lazare, has passed, with grave injuries from the war with the Dravengar Dominion. The kingdom mourns the end of his line, for he had an infertile wife, said the royal physicians, and therefore, no heirs to his gloried throne. It is an expected tradition that his cousin, Prince Leontis, takes over the throne in five days after the empire's grieving. But then King Lazare's will is discovered, and it is revealed that perhaps his queen was not so infertile.
Now, it's up to Kythe, with his well known and clever tracking skills, and the help of two local lumberjacks in the woods, Rhiannon and her brother Brendyn, to find the secret heir of Aurethia's throne. They go through trees and forests, searching for clues and hints of His Majesty's heir, all the while, Prince Leontis orders them to be hunted, out of greed and desire for the throne.
The game of cat and mouse begins, and Kythe can only hope to find this secret heir before Leontis kills him. And it begs the question; who will become Aurethia's noble ruler?