Arianna’s always been the perfect heir, the obedient future ruler of her interstellar kingdom. But when Arianna’s royal shapeshifting abilities fail her publicly and disastrously at her engagement ball, she suddenly finds herself on the outside of the life she called her own.
Dressa’s the perfect socialite, the opposite of her older sister’s rigid control. When her sister goes down with a mysterious illness and is sent away from court, Dressa’s thrust into a position she never wanted. She’s ordered to impersonate her sister—her body, her name, her personality, everything—and court her sister’s bride-to-be.
Who’s gorgeous. And who’s likely been sent to take her family down.
Can Dressa resist falling for her sister’s bride?
Can Arianna find a way to take back her own name and position?
When the stakes are the kingdom and control has been their whole lives, these siblings must find a way to make their lives their own.
The Truthspoken Heir collects episodes 1-36 of The Stars and Green Magics, previously published in serial form, as well as three all new beginning episodes!
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
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