The Crescent Heir
Everything she'd ever heard as myth, as legend, as bedtime stories told to frighten and fascinate — it was real, all of it, standing right in front of her with a cup of seven-hundred-thousand-dollar wine.
"But,"
Jebediah said, his tone dropping half a note — slower, more careful, "it came with something. Something anyone outside this family would call... strange."
Anna leaned in slightly. "How so?"
"The Ascension Rite was never carried out."
She frowned. "The Ascension Rite?"