The King Who Drank the Sun

By Jeff Kemmer

When a bastard prince survives his public execution by drinking the empire's captive sun and becomes the most powerful being alive, he is forced to marry the war widow he made in a single blast of holy fire before the empress can turn him into a living weapon to conquer the world.

They dragged Prince Osric Valeen into the sun arena in chains so the empire could watch him die.

Instead, he drank the light.

For three hundred years, the rulers of Aurenne have fed prisoners, traitors, and unwanted heirs to the Crown Sun-a chained star suspended above the capital, worshipped as the source of law, harvest, and divine right. No one has ever survived the rite. No one was meant to.

Now Osric is alive. Burning. Unkillable, perhaps. And suddenly more valuable than any throne.

To keep the empire's new god-beast under control, Empress Edrienne binds him in a political marriage to Lady Elowen Vey, widow of the celebrated general Osric incinerated when his power first tore loose. Elowen has every reason to hate him. She may also be the only person who can keep him human.

But the Crown Sun is starving. The empire's peace is built on a lie. And the more power Osric takes into himself, the more the thing inside the light wants out.

If he cannot master the fire in his blood, he will become the apocalypse his enemies need.

If he does master it, he may have to burn the empire down himself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZ7CD93X
• ISBN13: 9798195056315
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"