- Author
- Ori Refael Peretz
- Category
- Political fantasy
- Language
- English
- Last updated
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The crown is yours. The dead have other ideas.
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Story premise
A new monarch inherits a throne that preserves the minds of its dead rulers. Taking power means receiving their memories, experience and voices, along with ambitions that did not end with their lives. The monarch must govern a living kingdom while deciding which of these competing minds to trust. Their accumulated wisdom can strengthen a reign, but counsel from a predecessor may also serve an unfinished agenda. Drawing on the throne’s knowledge without surrendering authority becomes central to ruling a kingdom whose former sovereigns still expect to have a say.
Reader interests
For readers drawn to political fantasy, inherited memory and the struggle to govern amid competing voices of authority.
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