THE HEIR OF THE DRAFT

They executed him as an impostor: his own sister denied him under a blood oath, and the throne smoothed over the place where his name might have been. He woke before the same court, but this time the name was already cut into the stone. Here a lie chokes the speaker, a servant's word outweighs a prince's blood, and every death simply opens the next draft. He will have to learn the rules faster than the regent can find a new way to kill him.