An exiled prince fights a lethal succession trial to reclaim his throne and destroy the usurper who killed his family.
Caelen Vance grew up anonymous on a backwater world, unaware he carries the Star Core of a fallen dynasty. At twenty-six he travels to Orisa, where a brutal contest will decide the next ruler. He aligns with pilot Liyana Ryder, entering a feigned engagement that gradually deepens into something neither expected. The trial forces him to master the imperial power sleeping inside the Core while the Void Lord, architect of his family's slaughter, moves to erase Orisa entirely. Every challenge peels back another layer of the heritage he was denied, and the stakes shift from personal survival to the fate of a planet.
Motifs
Concealed royal lineage
Trial by combat
Feigned betrothal deepens
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