The Shadow Rule: A Sapphic and Nonbinary Epic Fantasy Space Opera
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THE ENEMY BY MY SIDE.
THE ENEMY IN MY HEART.
Ari will never be the Heir again. Her younger sister, Dressa, was supposed to hold her place, but now Dressa’s stolen her future rulership.
Banished to a resort world to recover from her illness, Ari’s determined to reclaim her shapeshifting abilities and race back to the capital. But a young gardener with a mysterious past is taking too much interest in Ari’s new persona, and a possessive duke is bent on capturing her attention for himself.
Are they both after her heart, or something far more sinister?
Dressa won her freedom, won her bride—and won a kingdom she didn’t want. Now, with an alien crisis brewing, she has to step up as the Heir, and maybe, soon, as the ruler.
Because there’s a secret at the heart of the kingdom. A secret that spans her father’s entire rule and could bring everything tumbling down.
And she’s already let the enemy into her palace, and into her heart.
When no one is who they seem and every smile is a weapon, the Truthspoken must find their way to truth before the kingdom crumbles around them.
The Shadow Rule collects episodes 37-93 of The Stars and Green Magics, previously published in serial form.
Note: This book has main characters who use gender neutral pronouns (they/them/their, fae/faer/faerself).
This LGBT epic fantasy in space is perfect for fans of:
Suzanne Collins
Kiera Kass
Rebecca Rode
Alexandra Rowland
Marie Liu
Lindsay Buroker
Brandon Sanderson
Ann Leckie
Everina Maxwell
Emily Skrutskie
Becky Chambers
Jessie Mihalik
Arkady Martine
Yoon Ha Lee
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Novae Caelum is an author, illustrator, and designer with a love of spaceships and a tendency to quote Monty Python. Star is the author of The Stars and Green Magics (a winner of the 2022 Laterpress Genre Fiction Contest Fellowship), The Emperor of Time (a Wattpad Featured novel), and Magnificent. Stars short fiction has appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, Escape Pod, Clockwork Phoenix 5, and Lambda Award winning Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Novae is nonbinary, starfluid, and uses star/stars/starself or they/them/their pronouns. Most days you can find Novae typing furiously away at stars queer serials, with which star hopes to take over the world. At least, that’s the plan. You can find star online at novaecaelum.com
