Lucian Reef

The Tenth Kiss: The Final Choice Between Love and Freedom (Kiss of Blood and Crown Series, #5) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

They once built laws from fire and blood. They once called it mercy. Now, in the fifth and final chronicle, the world learns to breathe.

The war that broke the stars has ended, but the silence it left behind runs deep. Rin, the keeper of measure, and Arien, the man who learned to rebuild law with his hands, return to a city that no longer knows how to call itself holy. The bell has no clapper. The frame hums without sound. The people live, but they do not yet remember how to live together.

In the ashes of what was once faith, a new rhythm begins. They call it work. They call it breath. They build rope and beam, bridge and garden, not for worship, but for the comfort of being seen.

But memory is never kind. The world itself remembers the names of the dead too well. It shapes echoes-familiar faces, repeated words, and the names that refuse to rest. When a child is born with three faint points at his sternum, when the stars align as they did a thousand years ago, Rin and Arien understand: the world keeps its rhythm by remembering love, not by forgetting loss.

Between ashes and dawn, they make their last stand-not against gods or kings, but against forgetting. Each count they share, each breath that passes between them, becomes a law written into the marrow of a mending world.

Theirs is not a story of survival anymore. It is a story of persistence-the refusal to let love vanish even when the body yields. For every scar the city bears, there is a new line of rope, a new post driven straight, a new voice that hums the fourth count beneath the day's noise.

In The Tenth Kiss, light does not fall from heaven-it rises from hands. Freedom is not the breaking of chains, but the rhythm that keeps them from closing again.

And when the stars return to their ancient places, the world does not bow. It keeps the rhythm the two men left behind-steady, patient, honest. The people wake, not to pray, but to work. Children count, not to measure loss, but to hold it right.

Some stories end with victory. This one ends with continuance. Love freed the law; freedom kept the law alive.

The world remembers. And so it breathes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lucian Reef
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232567040
• Artikelnr.: 75661111