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The Five Hundred Silent Years

Book One of Blood of the Selyari by Honey B. Garland

For five hundred years, the Selyari have been absent from recorded history. On Shara, people are brought into the world through Cradling, great Houses shape public truth, and the approach of the Closing of the Two Eyes draws every gaze toward the sky.

In rural Janvel, Amari, Nysera, and Vaessa Lioren have grown up as sisters under their uncle Tavren’s watchful care. When sacred observances call House Lioren to Gorenth, old agreements and buried records begin to tighten around them. At the Closed Moment, the city goes dark—and all three sisters awaken as something the ruling order insists no longer exists.

To survive, they must uncover the truth of their births, remain beyond the reach of House Pyreth, and learn whether the power joining them is an inheritance, a weapon, or both.

Themes

• Sisterhood tested by power and secrecy
• Erased histories and inherited memory
• Political Houses, sacred ritual, and manufactured truth
• Black speculative world-building on a planetary scale

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